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2 | title: 'Shipwright' | ||
3 | project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' | ||
4 | ... | ||
5 | |||
6 | He builds a ship as if it were the last thing \ | ||
7 | holding him together, as if, when he stops, \ | ||
8 | his body will fall onto the plate-glass water \ | ||
9 | and shatter into sand. To keep his morale up \ | ||
10 | he whistles and sings, but the wind whistles louder \ | ||
11 | and taunts him: Your ship will build itself \ | ||
12 | if you throw yourself into the sea; time \ | ||
13 | has a way of growing your beard for you. \ | ||
14 | Soon, you'll find yourself on a rocking chair \ | ||
15 | on some porch made from your ship's timbers. \ | ||
16 | The window behind you is made from a sail, thick \ | ||
17 | canvas, and no one inside will hear your calling \ | ||
18 | for milk or a chamberpot. Your children \ | ||
19 | will have all sailed to the New World and left you. \ | ||
20 | But he tries not to listen, continues to hammer \ | ||
21 | nail after nail into timber after timber, \ | ||
22 | but the wind finally blows him into the growling ocean \ | ||
23 | and the ship falls apart on its own. | ||