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Waterline
By: Thomas M. McDade
USS Mullinnix (DD-944)
USS Miller (DE/FF-1091)
One Saturday
I found myself
in the punt
painting
waterline.
It wasn’t
as bad as
working
off a stage
and better
than a camel
when a ship
made waves.
It was nice
to watch
the crabs
swim by
but not
those chute
fish sailors
like to joke
about.
My section
didn’t have
the duty
but the BM2
said if you’re
on board
you’re it.
Sometimes
liberty to him
was in with
that bucket
of waterline
so many
boots
never find.
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