SUBMARINE
by: Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
- Y soul is
a submarine.
- My aspirations are torpedoes.
- I will hide unseen
- Beneath the surface of life
- Watching for ships,
- Dull, heavy-laden merchant ships,
- Rust-eaten, grimy galleons of commerce
- Wallowing with obese assurance,
- Too sluggish to fear or wonder,
- Mocked by the laughter of waves
- And the spit of disdainful spray.
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- I will destroy them
- Because the sea is beautiful.
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- That is why I lurk
- Menacingly
- In green depths.
"Submarine" is reprinted
from the Masses, February, 1917. |
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