To Ciaran Gerard Carson, d. 6 October 2019. Requiescat in pace.
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To the Albatross, so many poets
over the years admire your strange beauty,
to say you are beautiful, imperfect,
however much like human behavior,
elicits a response as a symbol.
Agent of flight, lofty heights, you follow
leagues of sailors on voyage to distant
barbaric lands, where language is not Greek,
and not common to the nautical kind,
to be honest, I have never met you,
reliably, neither have the others,
only we mimic the idea of flight,
symbol of long journeys, epic poems,
still, a figment of imagination.
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