I never thought

Comfortable, Like old lovers that know each angle and curve. 
Lustful, like young impulsive strangers eager to learn more. 
Endless 
Overwhelming 
Natural 
As animals and souls

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Mao 
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Sheltered stalactite white cliff harbor
Cave dwellings amoungst iron rod balconies 
Before Roman times 
History 
Smell of flowers never smelt before, birds chirping, glass bottomed boats and palms. 
Heaven. 
Meandering roads
Never lost 
Layers of the ages
Colors rolling off each other 


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I try to forget you 
Because you want to be gone 


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If I drift long enough I will be home


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Gibraltar 
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The strait is now full of color and clouds as the sun goes down. We just saw whales that I can't ID and the water is calm yet currents are still pushing us back. Water is always flowing into the salty Med. Current never runs east. Ancients used to use underwater sails to harness the deep water currents to draw them out into the open sea to explore. 
I saw the many faces of Gibraltars past, as men used the rock to build fortress after fortress to defend this vital opening. Huge caves on the mountain sides. 
Along the rest of the coast; windmills, lighthouses and castles dot the distant hills. 
I wanted to take a monkey. 
The rest of the crew fought me on this one ... and we sailed on. 


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Mariner warning
Locust swarms from Spain to Morocco are spreading to the Canary Islands. 


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Chinese captain of a fishing boat, who's crew had been out on the water for 6 months, has repeatedly come to the side of the wharf to stare and follow me as I do rust work. 
He squats and chatters at me a foot or two from my face. I try to explain without giving too much attention to him that in fact I speak no chinese, mandarin or any other asian language. I confirm this fact with my crew mate. 
He believes non of our charades. 
Next day he is back. Same stalking situation. I work on, ignoring him and about twenty other admirers. 
Finally he leaves, to my relief, only to meet up with the owner of our ship a ways down the dock. 
He offers 200000 African francs for one night with me (which sounds much more impressive than it is). In this world I am regarded as property. 
Jenn for sail. 
Karsten tells him 
"That's not even enough to fix the shit tank!" 

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No one ever really loves for more than one single moment 
and 
No one can really promise you more
For always, maybe 

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Favorite quotes from book Oscar and Lucinda 

"The stool was made from Devon oak and, while generally dark, was polished to a honey color at it's knees, the point at which two hundred years of hands had picked it up, swung it, set it down, always within this one cottage" 

Phosphorescence
"The sea rolled around the bow as white as milk, studded with bright sparkles of blue light. The milk curdled. The sea was marble with clear black water in between. The white clouds dispersed, but the sparkles remained. Then one of the points suddenly exploded. It was a flare beneath the water. The great ship floated in liquid light." 

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Light falling at the right angle on what she wishes projected. 


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I'm not from behind the moon 
(Common german phrase) 

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4am 
I almost didn't want to go to bed.
The Med is so calm that the light show of bioluminescence is incredible. Stars in the sky and reflecting on the waters surface intermingle with the milkiness and the crest from the bow wake, which glows intensely with fluorescent green. 
Wonderful. 


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I am more then I seem to be
In my outer existence 
I have to offer explanation to the world 
In my inner existence 
I embody the answer 
For all truth and peace 
Lie within


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Fav quotes from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 


"Old Janx Spirit" 
For my head will fly, my tongue will ie, my eyes will fry and I may die. 
Won't you pour me one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit. 

"The ships hung in the air much like bricks don't" 

"I refuse to prove I exist" says God
"For proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

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Brave New World 

"One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies" 


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I'd rather struggle in gale force winds with one honest soul
Then suffer endless rainbows with a hundred fair weather friends


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The Restaurant at the end of the Universe

"You can kill a man, destroy his body, break his spirit, but only the Total Perspective Vortex can annihilate a man's soul! The treatment lasts seconds but the effects last the rest of your life" 


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I began to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. You don't look back along time but down through it like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that but nothing ever goes away. 


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Papillon ~ Henri Charriere 
"I feel an acute need to spit on your face but I won't for fear I would soil my saliva."

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I would bleed if I had life left 
I would fall if I could even stand to walk
I would cry if I had tide to run trough me 
Without you I cannot seem to be enough of myself,
or even look to see her, 
for fear of the pain in your reflection and residue

JC 


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A turtle can live stuck on it's back for years 


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As bad as I am, I am proud that I am worse then I seem


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Something always takes the place of missing pieces you can take and put together even though you know somethings missing. Somethings always missing always someone missing something. 
~Beck 

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trans atlantic s/s 


{first published by Sea Siren Tales ~ The Drifting Chronicles on Thursday, 17 September 2009 at 11:01}