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The Better of the Sea (Free verse) by abecedarian
Diesel fumes had weeks ago given way
to an imposed and permanent
silent drifting
whose own mephitic lullabye
repels all surprise.
I slept bell after bell
Rope after rope
Fish after fish
In my dirty cotton hammock
Twelve knots of repair
Mark my time away from home
My boredom often permits a daydream
where those same knots are no longer in my hammock
but under the waters surface
being dragged in our wake
But by St. Osmund's testicles
tonight that hammock got the better of the sea -
knots undone, it dropped my rusting ass to the deck!
And now as I look out over the water
I swear I feel a breeze
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