With warm relaxing sand in the small of my back,
_____I looked out at the blue green Mediterranean sea
and then back to rows of beautiful bodies
wearing tiny bathing suits._____

I had seen so many men on the road
whom I momentarily thought were Gunter
(the man in the bar
the purple jerseyed man on a chair by the stream,
the man with the baseball cap in the parking lot)
that another "Gunter" was no surprise.
He was lying on a neighboring blanket_____
with his arm flung across the thighs of a substantial blonde.
The gesture was familiar.

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