Tresasure Seekers

Treasure seekers
With their metal detectors
Sifting the sand
For gum wrappers
Pennies
And pull-tabs

I wonder
If they ever
Make enough
To recoup
Their initial
Investment

Somebody
Should do
A Study

(These city workers in their yellow vests have the right of it; scavenging the sand for the evidence of last night's debaucheries to put into the proper receptacles before someone steps on it and shreds a foot. I think these weekend adventurers would be hard pressed to earn the equivalent of minimum wage with their pathetic treasure seeking. But I'm sure it's more exciting to find a fallen quarter than it is to pick up the ten-thousandth Coors light bottle tossed away by some drunk and selfish fuck, even if it is far more useless.)