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2 | title: The shipwright | ||
3 | genre: verse | ||
4 | |||
5 | project: | ||
6 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
7 | css: elegies | ||
8 | order: 21 | ||
9 | prev: | ||
10 | title: Serengeti | ||
11 | link: serengeti | ||
12 | next: | ||
13 | title: Spittle | ||
14 | link: spittle | ||
15 | ... | ||
16 | |||
17 | He builds a ship as if it were the last thing \ | ||
18 | holding him together, as if, when he stops, \ | ||
19 | his body will fall onto the plate-glass water \ | ||
20 | and shatter into sand. To keep his morale up \ | ||
21 | he whistles and sings, but the wind whistles [louder][] \ | ||
22 | and taunts him: Your ship will build itself \ | ||
23 | if you throw yourself into the sea; time \ | ||
24 | has a way of growing your beard for you. \ | ||
25 | Soon, you'll find yourself on a rocking chair \ | ||
26 | on some porch made from your ship's timbers. \ | ||
27 | The window behind you is made from a sail, thick \ | ||
28 | canvas, and no one inside will hear your calling \ | ||
29 | for milk or a chamberpot. Your children \ | ||
30 | will have all sailed to the New World and left you. \ | ||
31 | But he tries not to listen, continues to hammer \ | ||
32 | nail after nail into timber after timber, \ | ||
33 | but the wind [finally blows][] him into the growling ocean \ | ||
34 | and the ship falls apart on its own. | ||
35 | |||
36 | [louder]: apollo11.html | ||
37 | [finally blows]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html | ||