Dealt With Hammers
Springing loose the seventh seal
Passing by on the starboard
Side, as over waves, beneath moons
We would ride, springing loose seals,
Making deals while getting on,
Bored, while getting on each all
The others' nerves, just deserves
Reservations of the real
Deal so newly delivered
No seal had yet been set, spoons
Ready and waiting to lap
It up, gruel, cruel porridge, bon
Vivancy vacancy pall
Setting seals like lead pours swerves
Along racing curves near keel
As flying fish fish once fished
So we once sailed, singing tunes
As attuned became our planks
Beneath the barnacles grown
Heavy on wood covered small
Errors, liftings, new mistakes
Not seen, shown up not until
Landfall having been made, laid
Down the wandering star guides
For any port, any storm,
Any day soon now become
Any peace, any normal
Way, locally we deserves
To hammer away at our ship's curves
Until re-satisfied we become free
To set out once more to sea to be free
Of the waves which hammer what we deserves
Which is not to be found at any port,
Nor to be found, nor ever to be bought,
But only ever to be sought, uncaught
Among they who but hammer out their blows
As if to lift one upward into snows
Ever risen above all downlanders'
Dealing out just the facts as with hammers
We had rather not be dealing with as
And so we chose to live such life beyond
Their scepters and their rods, as if gods
Of Himalayan ranges unsought by sods'
Turners who could but fear us, never near
Us for fear of blunderbuss, sweeping blades,
Rapine visited on their maiden's heads,
Sweet, colorful traces as left for dead's
The life not on sea bearing salt for me's.