Who's Wearing The Pants Anyway?

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. - Thoreau

with your fake hellos

and long, crocodile tear goodbyes

you wanted to be the captain

steering the ship

you wound up walking the plank

turning an empty spit's crank

as the lonely, stray dog barks

indigestable food for circling sharks

an empty blood bank

Author's Note

"They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,--how they will sometimes upset a boat, or tear it in pieces, to get at the man in it. I can easily believe in the undertow, but I have no doubt that one shark in a dozen years is enough to keep up the reputation of a beach a hundred miles long." - Thoreau