Tribute to an Ugly Boat

Ugly boat

barges it’s flat square bow through the Sunday chop.

Graceless. Unrefined. Boorish.

I marvel at it as we make our way back to its mooring spot.

Windshield-less. Suppository shaped. Struggles to hold a straight course.

Gunwales uncomfortably close to the water line.

Wide yellowed fiberglass deck with neon teal and pink trim.

Underpowered, carbureted old two stroke engine

shrieks like a chainsaw with sinusitis.

Its owner loops a bowline around the dock post

And with a smile reminds me:

Ugly boat’s better’n no boat at all.