“Cruise Ship Intervention” by Andrew Merton

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Evidence that We Are Descended from ChairsGod wakes from Her nap
in one of Her moods,

just in time to change the tide.
She puts on a rhinestone-studded jumpsuit,

purple stilettos and lipstick,
slings a boa around Her shoulders

and struts out on deck.
She’s gorgeous, if you like that sort of thing.

And—admit it, pal—you do.
Yes, you, in the faded blue blazer,

staring over the railing,
working up the courage to jump.

I’d turn around if I were you.
Can’t you feel the current shifting?

–Andrew Merton,
Evidence that We Are Descended from Chairs (2012), Accents Publishing

Andrew MertonAndrew Merton has been a political reporter and columnist for the Gloucester (Massachusetts)Times, The Boston Herald Traveler and the Boston Globe, and a contributing editor with Boston Magazine. His articles and essays have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Ms. Magazine, Yankee Magazine and The Boston Phoenix. His book Enemies of Choicewas published by Beacon Press in 1980, and his anthology In Your Own Voice: A Writer’s Reader was published by HarperCollins in 1995. His poetry has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Powhatan Review, Paper Street, The Comstock Review, Silk Road, Third Wednesday, The American Journal of Nursing and elsewhere. He teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire.

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