Front of the fishmongers
tall black clapboard
huts s p r e a d
n e t s
beached lugger pennant,
hurry to get fresh
before the sewage
works & the battered
harbour wall, rusted rails
worry the mariners'
chapel, a museum where
it stretches
behind the screen
among bottled boats,
misfortune, guilt etc.
from which one can
not (easily) be free;
they try to share it
but the sea won't be
divided, the sea is
obviously a burden
or an encumbrance;
it lies like a plane
and it is not stupid
to be afraid you can
be taken by the waves,
the too-fine nets
catch everything young
must be thrown back
& the sea thickens
with dead quota now
the fisherman in
costume at the museum,
allowed to continue
his research but denied
further right of publication,
is described as 'handsome,
charismatic, a talented
orator, and a natural
leader'.
Its wings
extended through
inaccurate knowledge
from which one cannot
(easily) be free, it's
always been a mystery
to me on what it could
subsist, behind the screen
isolation is a recurrent
cache, everything
one of the constants
of island life:
soldier, guard, prisoner,
bird or plant:
roses are here that
don't even have names!
Albatross networks
the complete company
world my booby provides,
the sea on the other side,
working as a pimp,
living with a dance-hall
girl - the sea is obviously
trying to kill us.
after her death
sewage spray floods
the amusement arcade,
the bonfire on the beach
at 2 a.m. startling now
after a thousand years
of rain fireworks has
always been a mystery
to me prehistoric
cookie monster, tear
a breach for the fry!
catcher wedged so tight
it creatures everything
we want to answer:
likes and dislikes, new
hypotheses about movements,
digests of diseases,
weather patterns
surface conditions the
abundance of food
inside the museum
kids from all over are
joining with scientists
to track ocean-going
albatrosses in Hawaii!!!
we are using sensitive
satellites in space,
miniature transmitters
on birds, and rapid
email communications
tracing route to albatross.net [62.16.147.5]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 97 ms 100 ms 97 ms ftr-rk-04.access.clara.net [195.8.83.4] 2 100 ms 100 ms 100 ms
fe-1-0-0-banner-starbuck.router.clara.net [195.8.83.1]
3 100 ms 95 ms 100 ms
atm-6-0-0-telee-tashtego.router.clara.net [195.8.68.138]
4 95 ms 100 ms 95 ms LINX-ge7-0-oscar.LON.router.COLT.NET
[195.66.224.49]
5 95 ms 94 ms 95 ms pos1-1-super-grover.LON.router.COLT.NET [212.74.64.21]
6 115 ms 120 ms 115 ms
pos6-0-0-cookie-monster.FFM.router.COLT.NET [212.74.64.165]
7 115 ms 115 ms 115 ms cr3.fra.access.DE.COLT.NET
[212.74.65.28]
8 120 ms 115 ms 115 ms fe5-0-0.ar3.fra.router.DE.COLT.NET
[212.121.151.46]
9 115 ms 115 ms 115 ms 213.61.185.34
10 119 ms 120 ms 120 ms 62.16.137.249
11 125 ms 134 ms 125 ms 62.16.128.5
12 130 ms 127 ms 130 ms 62.16.128.1
13 130 ms 135 ms 135 ms 10.170.20.66
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(Taking a break from
tracking for now . . .)
Drifted online
fishermen still drown,
Indians of all tribes,
handsome, charismatic.
Tour boat leaves from
Fisherman's Wharf -
order tickets ahead of time
(internet reservations
are not available).
There is often a very
long wait, mostly in
solitary confinement.
Named for the bucket
you bring fresh water
to the island, and
waste away, drink
seawater, feed on
garbage. When it's
over, you can try a
cup of Irish coffee.
Light of my firework,
waves and the wind,
one cannot (easily)
be free: flick off
on the fly, and answer
that escape attempts
are rare, that it is
almost impossible to
get up, but when you
are up, glides a breeze,
and the whole order
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