Seagulls

It’s late on the Manly to Circular Quay ferry. I have had a wonderful night like I haven’t in a while. I feel loose.

Duolingo seduces me into learning to make the time go faster. At some point, I realize I am on a boat, surrounded by water - something beautiful, worth paying attention to.

And maybe the ones that woke me up were the seagulls. Yes, the same way this human takes the last ferry of the night to go home, these friends catch the ferry by flying next to it and following its lights to get to Circular Quay. They want to sleep there because tomorrow early in the morning they want to be the first ones to steal a Big Mac from the hands of a tourist.

They put on a real show following the boat. I don’t have a Big Mac with me, so I go out and make them company for a bit. Tonight we have the same objective.