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Shadow of moon is the moon in the sky of it —
Wan as the face of a wizard, and far!
Never there shines from the firmament high of it
Grace of the planet or glory of star.
All the year round, in the place of white days on it —
All the year round where there never is night —
Lies a great sinister, bitter, blind haze on it:
Growth that is neither of darkness nor light!
Wild is the cry of the sea in the caves by it —
Sea that is smitten by spears of the snow;
Desolate songs are the songs of the waves by it —
Down in the south, where the ships never go. - Henry Kendall

Floating on the opposite side of the Earth
Somewhere in the Indian Ocean
Closest city would be
Augusta, Western Australia
First sighted by the Dutch East India Co. 1622

But I'll set my sextant
For the Courbet Peninsula
The desolation islands, of Kerguelen
Port-aux-Francais
Population: 50-100

Wailing of monstrous beasts
From a voyage of Sinbad
The Elephant Seal
Twice the weight of a Walrus
6-7x a Polar Bear

I could journey like Poe's Pym of Nantucket
Escaping shipwreck, mutiny, cannibals
Heading south from savages
Fate unknown; if I'd find Hollow Earth

Hope for ship repaired
By Kipling's engineer McAndrews

Or travel by primitive wood craft
Like Verne's sequel with Jearling
Avoiding compass deviation
So as not to be shipwrecked
On the lost Ice Sphinx

Maybe see the ghostship
Of Biddle's post WWII battle
A gold bullion carrying
Nazi U-boat

Maybe an adventure from home
Like Mitchell's Mr. Furnance
Seeking a professor's daughters hand
With a tutor's tales of -
Androids composing sonnets
And computing vulgar fractions
Perpetual motion machines
Solution to squaring the circle
The Tachypomp - successively
Stacked smaller trains
To achieve infinite speed

And most importantly
A tube through hollow Earth
From the Kerguelen Islands
To somewhere near my place in America

And I just may be lonely enough
To take that sojourn
Through Al Stewart's
Loneliest Place on the Map
For love, or a Wikipedia entry


Archive typewriter draft, 2 years ago