PASSENGER SHIP
Grey waves slide endlessly past, Not slow, Not fast. The world now an ocean disc. An all-encircling edge surrounds the mind. Horizon and sky, sky and horizon, Set stage for drama of day And change to starry night. Where's tine? Time’s gone: Gone into nothing. Nothing is time. Time slides. All around grey sea, blue sky; blue sea, grey sky. There is no land. Just sea. In the centre a contrast mad: The ship; : The people: ; Living a concentration of life, a concentrated extract; A death from world, a new life, a false life, A lite about to die in re-birth to world: Re-birth abruptly. Human associations now confused, aseddebabiels turmoiled, Tumble, ascend, engulf, break and mend. Customs human animal become, Easily, Without shame. A salad of life, a melange of living; A cruel cartoon; But true. Truer than life. -D. E. BARRY MARTIN (H.M.T. Atlantis, : The Australian Bight)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 514, 29 April 1949, Page 10
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151PASSENGER SHIP New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 514, 29 April 1949, Page 10
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