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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
"Hey Sailor" carries the reader through a plunging sea vision of birds, wind, mist, religion, time zones, South Seas trouble, courage, watchfulness, and the helm.
With the OCR damage corrected, the page's motion is clearer: the sailor address becomes a rolling cosmology where navigation, danger, memory, and praise keep changing scale from the body at the helm to the edge of the universe.
Hey Sailor. Across the top — that second of sight — then we dipped further than a big bird and strangely it didn't die. A carry-down hard, wilder wind changing out in the mist and unlenting swirl. Across the Cross of religion and time zone in another place. Laughter out in the South Seas while looking for trouble. Standing watch and licking micro tongue off the helm — you are the best since the very beginning.