glass-bottom boats

Filing in to our seats
on the glass-bottom boats
there was an excitement
in the air

Anchor thrown, I left
looking up
with no spectacles
to see

Twenty minutes later
the shark came,
winking at us as it
devoured a seal

This was too realistic
to recommend
again;
none of my photos
turned out

But I went back
the next day
with the same captain
and crew
to watch another
natural evisceration
that no one else
could see
but me

The shark
nudged the glass
yet again
to make another crack
waiting for me to return
again
tomorrow