Cleaning bait out of rental boats,

Cleaning fish from plastic totes,

Checking in rod, reels & line,

Pumping gas on the floating dock,

Never at that young age watching the clock…

Anchorage Marina, still sort of there,

Always in my mind will it be, most fair,

My first gainful employment, short of writing,

Only summertime work, NOT in the winters cold most biting…

Got to work then by boat,

Could of ridden my bike,

Could have walked, almost could have swam,

I wasn’t then a small tyke,

I loved that job better than school,

Never had a love for any kind of exam…

© ed ~ 4/21/10