A List of Fictional Ships

Eumaeus 603

The saddest sounds are like those

of the road, when mistaken for the wind

the deeds of the parasite

arrive

in rare depth

chronically dilapidated

without the slightest intelligence

a matter in need of repair

an evasive love

now grown inquisitive.

we walk together

and in walking

our need for servitude

is our direction.

Eumaeus 604

the diplomat companion

and the paper tourists

return to light

one last time

they understand the nature

of all those heads and bones,

abstaining, now, from any present

surprise is a narcotic

it comes in the shape of a eye

that belongs to misfortune

it comes repeated in confinement

in sooty churches

filled with charred commandments

it comes in eventually trying

to give the truth the slip.

Eumaeus 605

We are bound to our later moments

made of this shallow present,

there,

there,

there.

our curiosity always ends

with our differences

utterly lucky

this fabulous species

all brains and respiration

makes itself handsome to the future

then, then, then.

we are nearly always

bamboozled by the facts