Tack! Ready? Ready! The girls pretending
To be crew flattened themselves on the deck
As the sail sagged, swung, and billowed.
A perfect day for it, the skipper said.
The girls ate watermelon and drank cokes
Later in the narrow cabin that felt as good
As a fairytale doll’s house to them. Later
Still, they climbed over the sides and clung
To the ladder in their life jackets as the boat
Floated in a deep bay, the underwater cliff
Beneath them dropping hundreds of meters
Into dark water. “Are there any truly novel
States in nature?” asked the cosmologist.
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