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This poem is also a good
poem that belongs to the sea.

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It's called "Oil."

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I was working as a writer in
the engine room of a tanker.

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I went somewhere-- where was it?

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"Just north to the Philippines
on over to the Persian Gulf.

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Soft rain squalls and the
swells south of the Boleyn's

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late at night.

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Light from the empty
mess hall throws back

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the bulky shadows of winch and
fair lead over the slanting

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fantail over I stand.

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But for men on
watch in the engine

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room, the man at the wheel
to look out in the fire,

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the crew sleeps in cots on
deck for narrow iron bunks

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down drumming passageways below.

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The ship burns with a furnace
heart, steam, veins, and copper

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and burns, quivers and slightly
twists, and all of these goals.

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Easy goal of the hole
and deep vibration

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of the turbine underfoot.

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Varying with all these
crazed hooked nations' need.

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Steel plates and long
injections of pure oil."