Lately:

Every time I go to a job interview
I think
I could be crab fishing right now

Once in a while
when my friends mix up my name
with some one else's name-
jeeeze,
I could be sailing the Bering Sea
right now

when I sense a certain
co-dependence
or my family business gets
slow
I'm all like
fuck
I should have been born in Alaska
We should all be fishing for Opelio
There should be a crab boat named after my mother
There should be a tattoo me and my brothers all share-
something to do with crab
or the boat.
Or the sea...

Vast,
and unforgiving.