Good stuff! Lines to think about - and agree with!
Andrew
On 26 April 2018 at 08:04, G. E. Schwartz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
>
--
Andrew
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