Fagburn: The Beach

Well now the beach be one of the best things there be,
Well the fashion show is there for you to see.
See whose bum you like the best,
See who's got a hairy chest,
And the beach be one of the best things there be.

Jonathan Richman.

I've taken to going to the beach of an afternoon.
It's only round the corner, and it's a good place to do some contemplating while watching the play of light on water.
I think of Henry Scott Tuke, British People In Hot Weather (Fall song), Walt Whitman ("28 young men, bathing naked by the shore..."), Death In Venice and Reggie Perrin.
Boats appear, tide goes in, tide goes out - as pointless as Sisyphus.

Rim a nim a nim a nim a nim a nim a nim a nim,
We're going to the beach get started.