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AHAB'S LAMENT: I AM A WILD MAN IN A BOAT OF SORROW: I am a wild man in a boat of sorrow see this fearsome midnight voodoo run overshines the drunken sea thine own self tossed and splattered trash biblicana arcane revery to shoot the waves ammo from a gun of love bad white blues stalk the lightning night KARMA of some wild seed memory done violence to be unmade the rigging ripped by stormwinds ballast of banged out cantatas floats across the deck to sing these weary songs of the deep slime of ocean bed drownings banner across the drear sky projection of reversal this blasting hurling wild I am a wild man in a boat of tossed sorrow WRACK split thoughts of splintered dialectics old heart traumas all the undone will unravelling a ripped sail bust up rudder lashed to Ahab's wheel trials of harsh troubles pounding pounding stormed on a cross the old man's vision stalks the fog the drunken Dutchman approaches bells croak all is not well I am a wilderness a wild man in a boat of sorrow wrath smashed and savage to dive DEEP deep sea driver writhing saltslashed eye turned in its weapons blunted - 'a stranger to the stars' to depths mirrored incarnadine with drowned angels riding out the whirlwind towards the last bitter sprawling maelstrom's ending
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