yet outmanoeuvred,
I affected epaulettes and a cockade,
wrote a style well-bred and impervious
to the solidarity I angled for,
and played the ancient Roman with a razor.
I was the shouldered oar that ended up
far from the brine and whiff of venture,
like a scratching-post or a crossroads flagpole,
out of my element among small farmers –
I who once wakened to the shouts of men
rising from the bottom of the sea,
men in their shirts mounting through deep water
when the Atlantic stove our cabin's dead lights in
and the big fleet split and Ireland dwindled
as we ran before the gale under bare poles.
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