Oh good God, you didn't, did you?
joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: friday 13th
umm, the abuse and nightmares, maybe. poets don't usually get crushed
by 40' containers! how big is vb?
roger
On 1/15/06, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I miss those days sometimes. Then I remember the low pay, the
> sea-sickness,
> the near-death situations, the abuse, the crushing responsibility and the
> nightmares.
> Roger sounds like being a poet!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roger Day
> Sent: 13 January 2006 13:21
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: friday 13th
>
> shipped out of Rio De Janeiro on Friday 13th a long long time ago.
> First, one of the tugs broke down and we had to wait for another one
> then that one snapped a line trying to haul us against the current.
> Then the ships rudder-control mechanism broke. Spare parts had to be
> flown in to fix it.
>
> I'll leave the story about crossing the Bermuda triangle for another day.
>
> I miss those days sometimes. Then I remember the low pay, the
> sea-sickness, the near-death situations, the abuse, the crushing
> responsibility and the nightmares.
>
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