Marlins (Inspiration to Write )


When there are no marlins to take your line,

To un-spool the line in your pen -

You must grow the hands of a fisherman:

Push your boat out each day - like Hemingway.

Be ready, when a marlin leaps,

Even from a drain in your street,

To drop everything; stop;

Scrawl your poems on dusty car-tops.


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The Old Man and the Sea

Marlins