<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "liga", "kern", "onum"; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; line-height: 1.4; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Oil</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "liga", "kern", "onum"; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; line-height: 1.4; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">soft rainsqualls on the swells<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">south of the Bonins, late at night. Light<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">from the empty mess-hall<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">throws back bulky shadows<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">of winch and fairlead<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">over the slanting fantail where I stand.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "liga", "kern", "onum"; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; line-height: 1.4; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">but for men on watch in the engine room,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">the man at the wheel, the lookout in the bow,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">the crew sleeps. in cots on deck<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">or narrow iron bunks down drumming<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">passageways below.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "liga", "kern", "onum"; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; line-height: 1.4; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">the ship burns with a furnace heart<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">steam veins and copper nerves<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">quivers and slightly twists and always goes—<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">easy roll of the hull and deep<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">vibration of the turbine underfoot.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "liga", "kern", "onum"; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; line-height: 1.4; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">bearing what all these<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">crazed, hooked nations need:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">steel plates and<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">long injections of pure oil.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Gary Snyder</div></div></body></html>