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we've sailed these seas a thousand times
we'll sail a thousand more
but I'll regret for each of them
we made that moonless shore

I saw you last, your windblown hair
upon that stinking strand
while all about the harpies whirled
and dipped at your command

how on Earth was I to know
your nightly piercing screams
reflected, not my prowess, but
your more-than-human genes