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I was asked to read a poem
called "The Israeli Navy."

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I should explain
that when I wrote it,

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quite a number of years ago.

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I didn't know if there was
or wasn't an Israeli Navy.

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Turns out there is.

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But I was thinking
for what it's worth,

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I was thinking of a
much older Israeli Navy.

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One that would have lived in
quote unquote, biblical times.

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When the world as
we knew it was flat.

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"The Israeli Navy."

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Sailing to the end of the world.

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Stocked with grain and books
black with God's verse.

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Turned back rather than
sail on the Sabbath.

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Six days was the consensus,
was enough for anyone.

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So, the world it was concluded
with three days wide,

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in each direction.

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Allowing three days back.

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And Saturdays were given
over to keeping close.

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While Sundays the
Navy all decked out

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in white and many
colored skull caps.

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Would sail furiously trying
to go off the deep end.

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Yo ho ho, would say the
sailors, for six days.

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While on the shore
their women moaned.

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For years their boats
were slow and all show.

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And they turned into families
on the only land they knew.

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