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Unread 02-20-2017, 11:45 PM
William A. Baurle William A. Baurle is offline
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Sorry, Julie, I tried and tried to hold off until someone else posted after me.

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To everyone & anyone who stumbles by,

please click this link and read every line of the poem it links to.

For those who don't or won't click the link, one stanza:

A charnel stench, effluvium of living death
spreads outward from the hold,
where the living and the dead, the horribly dying,
lie interlocked, lie foul with blood and excrement.


- describing immediate environment where slaves were held (trapped, imprisoned) during long sea voyage.

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Also, please watch the film inspired by the events described in this masterful poem.

God's alive inside a movie/watch the Silver Screen.
- Keith Reid, lyricist for Procol Harum, from the song "Whaling Stories - ".



Egads: edited in. I linked to the WRONG soundfile for Smith & Jones. The Soundcloud version is the one without vocals. The vid I uploaded to Youtube contains the track where I included the vocal part (whispered so as not to wake up my son, who was sleeping in the next room):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw6Jg7c8q3I


I'll be here all week. There's T-shirts available, and please buy my CD! Enlarge your penis! The chix will love you!

Last edited by William A. Baurle; 02-21-2017 at 02:29 AM.
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