Crashing waves and summer sun
on the stone-studded beaches of the Cape.
The summer season just begun,
children smiling, mouths agape.
A single seagull swoops down low
searching for a scrumptious bite.
Finding something down below,
the daring bird soon takes flight.
Unappealing in its beak,
the fowl drops its insipid catch.
An excited child offers a shriek!
Running over for the snatch.
Watching the scene with innocent glee
as the toddler proudly shows off her prize.
But our onlooker smiles quickly flee-
a less than enviable gift from the skies.
A concerned mother springs up with haste,
Prying the object from her child’s grip.
Her face morphing to disgust; distaste,
the child indignantly bites her lip.
In the sand lay the object, strewn-
How a used tampon ruined an afternoon.
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