Half-buried in a mix of shell and 
 disintegrated rock, the solar powered 
 radio cranked out Alice Cooper  
 on Laguna Madre Bay.  School's out 
 for summer.  School's out forever. 
 We were dancing in the streets
 and in the surf and on the beach 
 and our toes cried uncle and 
 aunt Louise over buckets 
 of hot-coal grains of sand.  
 School's been blown to pieces.   
 With the windows down and 
 the AC juiced we mouthed the
 wrong words and hummed the rest
 while crazy Billy hollered 
 una mas cerveza por favor.
 
 The summer wind carried spritzs 
 and mists and colognes of the water 
 and the salt and bright pink oleanders 
 as loud as a beach umbrella.  It 
 clung to our skin and we 
 clung to each other like
 summertime summertime, jumping 
 from the water playing
 wet skin hot skin wet skin hot.  
 South of the jetties we celebrated 
 summer days and summer nights 
 and eight ounce bottles of 
 Hawaiian Tropic spf no. 4 while
 batman kites kamikazed in the 
 sea, diving like skimmer black and 
 yellow surfin' birds and
 he was my surfer boy.
 Skills of summer came fast
 in the cool of night water, 
 skills of summer came fast 
 in the warmth of the moon while 
 crazy Billy hollered
 una mas cerveza por favor.


 19 aug 01
 M Madison


 School's Out - Alice Cooper  (1972)
 Dancing in the Streets - Martha & the Vandellas (1966)
 The Summer Wind - Frank Sinatra (1966)
 Summer Days and Summer Nights - The Beach Boys (1965)
 Summertime Summertime. - The Jamies (1961)
 Celebrated Summer - Husker Du (1994)
 Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen - from Beach Classics
 Skills of Summer - K. Hunter / K. Herr