From my Maritime Chapbook and One Man Show: SEAFARERS.
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CAPTAIN’S FAREWELL.
“He was a slain man
when love finally found him.
Broadsided him completely,
like a boom flung loose
by a true Nor’Easter!
I sure would like to know
if that old bastard survived it
after the first few months.
Or if he wound up like you and me,
old fish that we are,
with a few dozen good hooks in ‘im
rusted into his jaw.
And a few in his belly
from swimming too close
to a good line
more than once,
if you know what I mean.”
Cheers!
Claudio Oswald Niedworok