Sailing*

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I am sailing in sorrow In the coastless Sargasso Where the sailors pray for wind in the horse latitudes In the Northern Atlantic In the weeds and the plastic I spend my days drifting in becalmed solitude

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Forlorn and exhausted The screams of jettisoned horses Rattle my dreams in the still of the night Half crazed craving water Half mad from the slaughter I send up my birds in exploratory flight

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My eyes ache in the light for the sight of her islands Green emeralds floating in a sweet azure sea So lost to my madness visions crowd my horizons And my longing feeds dreams of her calling for me

I sit awaiting the trade winds That will set my rig singing And carry me out of the doldrums I'm in Like the Tunis navigator I'll chase the black eel migration To land at her shore where I'll hold her again

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/Sick and tired of Like the poor Spanish horses

http://theamology.blogspot.com.au/2013_01_01_archive.html Contemplating self slaughter sailing tomorrow Crossing the sea of sorrow One theory, of sufficient popularity to serve as an example of [|folk etymology], is that the term horse latitudes originates from when the [|Spanish] transported horses by ship to their colonies in the West Indies and Americas. Ships often became becalmed in mid-ocean in this latitude, thus severely prolonging the voyage; the resulting water shortages made it impossible for the crew to keep the horses alive, and they would throw the dead or dying animals overboard. [|[2]]

In the North Atlantic - the North Atlantic Gyre bordered by the gulf stream covered in Sargassum sea weeds migrating eels currents lead to lots of plastic waste place of mystery in popular fiction 5th-century BC [|Carthaginian] explorer [|Himilco the Navigator]. - Carthage = Tunis Horse latitudes -doldrums - consistently warm, dry conditions

red Andrew's mystery novel // Plato's Pond // [|[11]] features the fictitious land of Gaia, which is a continent in the middle of the Sargassum Sea

I will sail until I find her I'll follow every constellation I'll sail the seven oceans I'll walk on every shore Turn every leaf in every forest every rock on every mountain For any clue that she has left me that might lead to her door

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