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BEAUTIFUL SHIP
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14 Flails me gnarled on the scrotum Imagine sir! Karmic despot decrees That an entire day Be dispensed with nought but a cocoyam to roast In the noon sun Better off deprived Of the right, than be emptied thus Of the verve – to vote Night and day I fast Not for piety’s sake But in subordination like suction To the will-whirls of penury, done On my earth As it is In the land beyond the beyond Of nightmares BEAUTIFUL SHIP Wherefore are you bound, beautiful ship! Sailing So many knots away Against the tides Of stormy, smelly seas like these? Won’t you be lost, O beautiful ship! In stormy, smelly seas like these Taking the western way; That perilous course 15 Away From your destination’s bay? Wherefore are you bound, beautiful ship! With sails of green, red and yellow Going so many receding knots away Over the murky, monster-ridden waters Of stormy, smelly seas like these? With rotted helm in cannibals’ clutches You sail on Against the tides Of stormy, smelly seas like these. Tell me, O! Beautiful ship, How many million league’s more from here – In these rainy nights and days – Is anchorage? MAGGOT PEOPLE Look, O priviledged eyes, here Where I reside Opposite fiction’s creepy places Can’t you see, O azure eyes, me; This endangered specie With habitat here, right here Where red-hot surfeit flows, lava-like Greed-scorching the earth? In what millennium, O! Time to come, shall I be A survivor ...