Goan Ocean Unfriendly
Oh,
the power is apparent
in
the curl of the ten foot waves of the sea.
Please,
just let me be!
I’m
gonna stay out.
Watch
you come in.
Goan
beach side, I ain’t coming back again.
Unfriendly
sea. Mad dogs raving around.
This
here ain’t no part of no joke.
There’s
nothing to tell:
fishermen
with empty nets,
clouds
emptying on me.
Goa’s
like hell without the flames,
just
rains all the time.
Who’s
to blame?
God
by any name, or
just
evaporation collecting in the clouds
and
coming back down?
Tourism is Goa's primary industry, taking up 12% of India's visitors, but it is mainly centered on the coastal areas. In 2010, more than two million tourists visited, about 1.2 million of whom were from abroad, dominated by low-budget travelers who want to party. National Geographic Society listed it as the 6th best nightlife spots in the world. In the winter, tourists go to Goa to enjoy the climate, but in the summer (which is the rainy season in Goa), guests from across India spend the holidays. In the Mahabharata the area was known as Goparashtra or Govarashtra, "a nation of cowherds." Goa's history goes back 20,000–30,000 years; the rock art engravings exhibit the earliest traces of human life in India.
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