Sea war

The cannon reared backward violently 

Like a seated man avoiding an hot spill

My heart a vessel chartless and shot-chewed

The stinking male spray, bilge-hearted

War starter, sternly barging past gouging burgs

Showing half of half of half

Enough to capsize a vessel of this size

The waves it breasts bravely threaten

To send her crew to bone-hued whale’s graves

Yet on she braces

Crewed and captained by mutineers and crude copies of officers.

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