Jonah

all that screaming bombastic splatter & gaiety
at the municipal swimming pool
the afternoon before Independence Day
him outside the fence
just observing not partaking
in all the fun & frivolity
hoping to come  upon at least one
magnanimous,gargantuan mouth
that can swallow whole
to take him all the way down
into the depths of the all time
aquatic delight

and then that tingling realization
that the owner of that lugubrious expanse
just might be you