lights on the water
shrimp boats tied up to the dock
shrimp, shrimpers on break
Night time at the shrimp docks.
We went hoping to see the northern lights but the lights we saw were on the boats at the Hudson’s Restaurant on the shrimp dock.
The shrimp boat were tied and the shrimpers were inside at the bar.
What do the shrimp do when not being caught?
Do they know they shrimpers are taking a break.
Do they sigh in relief that they made it through another day?
Do they look at each other and say, ‘What a day!’ or ‘That was a close one!’
Do they gather at a bar an exchange stories of close calls with all those things that want to eat them?
Do they live in ignorance that their world is filled with all those things that want to eat them?
Or do they live with the goal that they might someday be a part of some magical dish of shrimp served in a waterside restaurant where they are the end of someone else’s day.
Maybe next time I order a shrimp boil, I will think of this.
But I hope not.
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