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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: The shipwright | ||
3 | id: shipwright | ||
4 | genre: verse | ||
5 | |||
6 | project: | ||
7 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
8 | class: elegies | ||
9 | order: 21 | ||
10 | prev: | ||
11 | - title: Serengeti | ||
12 | link: serengeti | ||
13 | next: | ||
14 | - title: Spittle | ||
15 | link: spittle | ||
16 | ... | ||
17 | |||
18 | He builds a ship as if it were the last thing \ | ||
19 | holding him together, as if, when he stops, \ | ||
20 | his body will fall onto the plate-glass water \ | ||
21 | and shatter into sand. To keep his morale up \ | ||
22 | he whistles and sings, but the wind whistles [louder][] \ | ||
23 | and taunts him: Your ship will build itself \ | ||
24 | if you throw yourself into the sea; time \ | ||
25 | has a way of growing your beard for you. \ | ||
26 | Soon, you'll find yourself on a rocking chair \ | ||
27 | on some porch made from your ship's timbers. \ | ||
28 | The window behind you is made from a sail, thick \ | ||
29 | canvas, and no one inside will hear your calling \ | ||
30 | for milk or a chamberpot. Your children \ | ||
31 | will have all sailed to the New World and left you. \ | ||
32 | But he tries not to listen, continues to hammer \ | ||
33 | nail after nail into timber after timber, \ | ||
34 | but the wind [finally blows][] him into the growling ocean \ | ||
35 | and the ship falls apart on its own. | ||
36 | |||
37 | [louder]: apollo11.html | ||
38 | [finally blows]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html | ||