A bunch of surfer dudes,
sun-bleached blonde and sun-browned,
inch their way across the rocky shore,
Soup Bowl bound,
tentative as firewalkers
treading unshod on red coals.
Then, with jaws firmly set,
breasts pressed to boards,
these knights of the sea
paddle fearlessly forward,
to face the fabled dragon waves,
whose lair is the Soup Bowl.
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