The Great White of the Oxford Sea

Ohhhhhh,
To the Great White of the Oxford Sea
At thee I turn and stare
For when the summer comes around
I see thee everywhere

Asphalt is your blackened deep
As you swim with rubber wheels
Around the town you go with ease
Knowing just how good it feels

Your glistening back and shiny snout
All sparkle in the sun
Your presence is the greatest sign
That summer has begun

Sometimes your skin is white and plain
Showing your true heart
Other times your pale white coat
Is tattooed with words and art

Often times atop your head
Different colors you wear
A fashion statement of its own
Some ladders for your hair

You cruise around the Oxford Square
And visit people’s houses
Sometimes bringing plants alive
Or killing bugs and mouses

Patiently the people wait
It’s you they long to see
Bringing joys into their hearts
The Net and MTV

Sometimes to us you even bring
Some paint to do our walls
Or tools to fix a dishwasher
Or AC to fill our halls

Oh what a desperate tragedy
If summer wasn’t seized
By you, oh dazzling sharp Great White
To help us in our need

How sad it is when summer ends
And back the students come
For only briefly you will be
Then soon after, you are gone

You swim away back to your hole
To hide for winter’s season
Camouflaged and wrapped in snow
To winter, your grandest treason

But once again when leaves turn green
And the summer heat turns on
Tis then I’ll see you, oh Great White
Around from dusk til dawn

To the Great White of the Oxford Sea
At thee I turn and stare
For when the summer comes around
I see thee everywhere