How to avoid being eaten by an alligator

Alligators lie patiently there in the black,
Waiting in the still, warm water to attack
    The unwary in the dark,
    Who go in swimming stark
Naked after kicking back and smoking crack.

"Fla. Man Loses Arm to Alligator Attack": "Sheriff's deputies pulled a naked man from the jaws of a nearly 12-foot long alligator...It was not clear why Apgar was in the water at such an early hour. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Apgar told deputies he had been smoking crack." (Filed by The Associated Press, published November 29, 2006 in The New York Times.)