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<a href='archives.php?PHPSESSID=4a88ac8d4a3f2b6be982597cb2cc05b9'>archives</a><BR>it smelt like the sea today
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but i am not sure why
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for the ocean lies many miles west
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and countless more to the east;
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the sensation is entirely new--
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not the smell of the raging waters,
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<i>that</i> i have smelled on many another occasion
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but never from this stretch of earth
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could it be that global warming has inched
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at a speed greater than predicted?
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maybe the ice caps have melted,
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and the oceans risen,
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leaving the staunch stench of sea
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a daunting shadow on our doorstep
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eager to engulf and devour;
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perhaps i was so isolated today,
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behind my desk,
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behind my computer,
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behind these four concrete walls,
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as to fail to take notice
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of the ocean creeping in;
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could it be that i was
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so caught up in my own reality
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that i failed to see the one around me?
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and if i did, what now?
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retreat further inland, or
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further into myself, or
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refuse to move at all?
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this fate is mine, the same as the next
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for i have failed to inveigh,
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to smell the repugnance of the situation,
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to speak, to shout, to scream, before
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my larynx dried to the warm sea air
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leaving me
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out of voice;
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out of time;
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and equally of blame.
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