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Rod McKuen


While Drifting


This is the way it was
While I was waiting
for your eyes to find me.

I was drifting
             going no place.
Hypnotized by sunshine
                          maybe,
barking back at seals
along the beach.

Skipping flat stones
                    on the water,
but much too wise
                for sand castles.
My castles were
                across the sea
or still within my mind.

There were the beach bars
and the other beach people
sometimes little bedrooms
                     were my beach,
         but I was drifting.

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