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Sea lions stretched as on a rack

lounge on tattered coffee colored

docks, howling and chortling their

challenges as delighted tourists

snap hurried photos from new

cameras. Even the birds are

tourists: they dance on the backs

of nodding brown beasts, searching

for food, watching fish fly through

the air for their very lives,

memorizing their visions of mounds

of mountainous flesh interspersed

with the husks of drying fish

skeletons. The birds enjoy their

visits, make their seasonal home

here, will be back. The sea lions

welcome, frolicking together in the

tepid sea water, assured they'll soon

rejoin their mates in Monterey by

the cold light of the new moon.