Tuesday, November 21, 2006

The deckhand, Galbraith, desperately wants a smoke

When the call came to jump
he leapt with cigarette in mouth.

Two hours on the raft
hands & feet paddling
through water ready to freeze

calling to the occasional car

the only sign along shore
until they see the Gibbons' porch light

isn't enough to distract him
from what he lost.

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