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2 | title: The shipwright | ||
3 | genre: verse | ||
4 | |||
5 | id: shipwright | ||
6 | toc: "Shipwright" | ||
7 | |||
8 | project: | ||
9 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
10 | class: elegies | ||
11 | order: 21 | ||
12 | prev: | ||
13 | - title: Serengeti | ||
14 | link: serengeti | ||
15 | next: | ||
16 | - title: Spittle | ||
17 | link: spittle | ||
18 | ... | ||
19 | |||
20 | | He builds a ship as if it were the last thing | ||
21 | | holding him together, as if, when he stops, | ||
22 | | his body will fall onto the plate-glass water | ||
23 | | and shatter into sand. To keep his morale up | ||
24 | | he whistles and sings, but the wind whistles [louder][] | ||
25 | | and taunts him: Your ship will build itself | ||
26 | | if you throw yourself into the sea; time | ||
27 | | has a way of growing your beard for you. | ||
28 | | Soon, you'll find yourself on a rocking chair | ||
29 | | on some porch made from your ship's timbers. | ||
30 | | The window behind you is made from a sail, thick | ||
31 | | canvas, and no one inside will hear your calling | ||
32 | | for milk or a chamberpot. Your children | ||
33 | | will have all sailed to the New World and left you. | ||
34 | | But he tries not to listen, continues to hammer | ||
35 | | nail after nail into timber after timber, | ||
36 | | but the wind [finally blows][] him into the growling ocean | ||
37 | | and the ship falls apart on its own. | ||
38 | |||
39 | [louder]: apollo11.html | ||
40 | [finally blows]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html | ||