Thank you, Douglas! And yes... 2nd line, 4th word should be "of"
---- "G. E. Schwartz" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> SALT (At Sixty)
>
> This moring I read
> in Moby Dick og how
> "the seamen were lazily
> lounging about the decks,
> or vacantly gazing over
> into the leaden-colored
> waters," and i thought
> of how I will live in
> rain till my dry latitude
> comes, with my harpoons
> set against the tides
> of blood, that, I have
> to admit, is no common
> food. I'll pick my teeth
> with the broken teeth of
> carved bone combs. Religious
> sharks, well, such as they
> have their devices and
> gratify their appetites
> with songs chattering
> in my ears like surgeon's
> tongs. They have their
> commandments, I have my
> choices. And in this
> sixtieth year, when my
> skeleton will ramble
> along the bottom of
> the deeps of thoughts
> where crabs keep house
> and corals weep, my
> eulogy should be written
> on fading white-caps. Send
> word to the lasting salt.
> Do not gnash teeth and wail.
> The breached on the surface,
> the crucifixion, hides
> the eternals of the whale.
>
> --G. E. Schwartz
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