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Murdered Ship
-Inspired by the nursery rhyme "Sailing Ship"-
I saw a ship a-sailing,
A-sailing on the sea;
And it was full of horrid things,
Headed straight for me!
There were nightmares in the cabin,
And murder in the hold;
The sails were painted bloody velvet,
And the masts were evil souls.
The four-and-twenty sailors,
That haunted all the decks,
Were four-and-twenty zombies,
With twisted, broken necks.
The Captain held a cleaver,
Dripping with the blood he lacks,
And when the boat began to move
He had all the bodies, tittering in stacks
I saw a ship a-sailing,
A-sailing on the sea;
And it was full of horrid things,
Headed straight for me!
There were nightmares in the cabin,
And murder in the hold;
The sails were painted bloody velvet,
And the masts were evil souls.
The four-and-twenty sailors,
That haunted all the decks,
Were four-and-twenty zombies,
With twisted, broken necks.
The Captain held a cleaver,
Dripping with the blood he lacks,
And when the boat began to move
He had all the bodies, tittering in stacks
Published 23rd Mar 2012
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16th Jul 2012 4:12am
fun... replicas are cute but hard to honor in true.... and as in most pieces the ending was a train wreck! we as artist will reach more as the poem unfolds. so less is more! keep grindin tho!
