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There's one last request
which I'll get over with now,

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and it's called the
Plague of Dead Sharks.

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And I'll recite two new
poems after that, which

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I wrote since I'm similar--

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on a similar theme.

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This is called a
Plague of Dead Sharks.

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Who knows whether the
sea heals or corrodes?

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The wading, wintered
packed-beasts of the feet

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slough off, in spring, the
dead rind of the shoes' leather

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detention, the big
toe's yellow horn

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shines with a natural
polish, and the whole person

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seems to profit.

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The opposite appears
when dead sharks wash up

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along the beach for
no known reason.

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What is more built for winning
than the swept-back teeth,

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water-finished fins,
and pure bad eyes

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these old, efficient forms
of appetite are dressed in?

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Yet it looks as if
the sea digested

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what it wished of them with
viral ease and threw up what

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was left to stink and dry.

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If this shows how the
sea approaches life

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in its propensity to
feed as animal entire,

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then sharks are comforts,
feet are terrified,

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but they vacation in
the mystery and why not?

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Who knows whether the
sea heals or corrodes?

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What the sun burns up of
it, the moon puts back.