The Gentle Rejoinder
--Williams Carlos Williams 

These are the days I want to
give up my job and join
the old men I once saw
on the wharf at Villefranche
fishing for sea-snails,
with a split-stick,
in the shallow water-- 

.....................I know
something else you could catch,
she said, in the spring
as easily, if you
wanted to. But you probably
don't want to, do you?