If You Can Get It!

Merewether Beach New South Wales

WATERY WEDNESDAY

IF YOU CAN GET IT!

'Nice work if you can get it!'

Just lazing in a booth all day!

Gazing out over the ocean

In a desultory way!

No doubt drinking cups of tea

Or chatting on the phone!

Just about the cushiest job

That I have ever known!

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But wait! Is that a swimmer

In trouble?  In a rip?

Some tourist who's been venturesome

When taking his first dip?

All hell breaks loose! The sirens sound!

The calm's replaced by strife!

The Lifeguards suddenly appear

Intent on saving life!

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'Nice work if you can get it'?

Guardian Angels, in a way.

Essential on our beaches

On a sunny summer's day.

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GRADUATION 

Girls and boys come out to play!

Rules are broken for today!

All those years of gruesome studies,

Dictated by old fuddy-duddies!

Up till now I've had to learn,

Aiming for the time to earn,

Time to earn that lovely money.

I found learning far from funny!

Out into the world I go

Now to get that lovely dough!