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"The Waves."

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The sky flashes
and the great sea.

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The wind rises
and the great sea.

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And there is no way to undo it.

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It swells and lashes.

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I clutch the rail at the side of
the bed and stared at the wall.

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Drift is a sea word.

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Adjust for drift, start
turning your boat now.

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I sat in the boat and
the sky cracked open.

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It might as well have.

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I sat in the boat and
yelled at the waves.

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I might as well have.

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I strung the words
and everything

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under the shattered clouds in
sentences, by which I mean,

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which is to say,
the wine-dark sea.

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It bruises where
the oars strike.

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Hitched, step, stitched,
thought, what it is

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and where it wants to go.

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Someone needs to knot the rope.

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Someone needs to finish it,
a single thought completely.

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That it could follow,
that there could

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be a rosy-fingered wine-dark
sea consequently breaking.

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I am the mermaid singing
twisted in the sheets.

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I am, I have, I know and say.

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I know, I have, I will and do.

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Whitecaps and froth.

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I yelled at the waves.

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The ghost of myself slept deep.

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Try to finish,
finish the thought.

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Do not drop anchor here.

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That it could follow that
there could be a word and then

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another.

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I recalibrated and
the light streaming

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completely down in shifts.

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Pull yourself out.

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I clutched the rail
at the side of the bed

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all night, the light
stuttering against the waves.

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What trips over terms in
the name is dragged up

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and knocking things over with
the names of other things

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between the swells.

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The fingered dawn.

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The terrible shore.

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The complicated mooring.

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