I want to create a thread that never dries.

The storm rose
without warning,
and on their way to port,
they began to flounder.

The pilot was drunk,
and had to be tied,
and they went under slowly,
as if hoping to make it out.

Only the pilot remained,
to tell the tale,
drunk from that day forward,
and never again out to sea.

And there's not enough wine,
to slack his thirst,
and he seeks a kind executioner,
but nobody wants to be.

Behold him passing, behold him passing!
One who does not know how to step on solid ground,
who drinks wine and never learned to swim,
because destiny never thought him.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe%20Totec/159

We come on the sloop John B
My grandfather and me
Around Nassau town we did roam
Drinking all night
Got into a fight
Well I feel so broke up
I want to go home

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, yeah yeah
Well I feel so broke up
I wanna go home

The first mate he got drunk
And broke in the Cap'n's trunk
The constable had to come and take him away
Sheriff John Stone
Why don't you leave me alone, yeah yeah
Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
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Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, let me go home
Why don't you let me go home
(Hoist up the John B's sail)
Hoist up the John B
I feel so broke up I wanna go home
Let me go home

The poor cook he caught the fits
And threw away all my grits
And then he took and he ate up all of my corn
Let me go home
Why don't they let me go home
This is the worst trip I've ever been on

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, let me go home
Why don't you let me go home

Everybody, listen to me,
And return me, my ship.
I'm your captain, I'm your captain,
Though I'm feeling mighty sick.


I've been lost now, days uncounted,
And it's months since I've seen home.
Can you hear me, can you hear me,
Or am I all alone.


If you return me, to my home port,
I will kiss you mother earth.
Take me back now, take me back now,
To the port of my birth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8MYsii4DZY

This is just one stanza from Rimbaud's poem -- it's too long to type all of it!

I have come to know the skies splitting with lightning, and the waterspouts
And the breakers and currents; I know the evening,
And Dawn rising up like a flock of doves,
And sometimes I have seen what men have thought they saw!

What a great poem though, and he was only 16 when he wrote it. Amazing.

1. The earth is a closed system, meaning that it rarely loses or gains extra matter. The same water that existed on the earth millions of years ago is still present today. You might be drinking the same water as a T-Rex!

2. By the time a person feels thirsty, their body has lost over 1 percent of its total water amount. Thirst is actually a sign of dehydration.

3. Although a person can live without food for more than a month, a person can only live without water for approximately one week.

4. Ancient Egyptians treated water by siphoning water out of the top of huge jars after allowing the muddy water from the Nile River to settle.

5. It took until the 1950’s for scientists to begin to suspect that water might carry diseases. Although earlier treatment of water existed, it was mainly done to improve the taste, smell or looks of the water - not the health standards.

6. The first United States water plant with filters was built in 1872 in Poughkeepsie, New York.

7. The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) of 1974 represented the first time that public drinking water supplies were protected on a federal level in the United States. Amendments were made to the SDWA in 1986 and 1996.

8. In a 100-year period, a water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean, 20 months as ice, about 2 weeks in lakes and rivers, and less than a week in the atmosphere.

9. Water regulates the earth's temperature.

10. Less than 1% of the water supply on earth can be used as drinking water.

11. Human brains are 75% water.

12. A single tree will give off 265 liters (70 gallons) of water per day in evaporation.

13. Americans use five times the amount of water that Europeans use.

14. Over 70,000 different water contaminants have been identified.

15. Freshwater animals are disappearing five times faster than land animals.

16. It takes 5,680 litres (1,500 gallons) of water to process one barrel of beer.

17. The Babylonian moon Goddess, Ishtar, was associated with sacred springs, and her temples were often situated in natural grottoes from which springs emanated.

18. There are 1.6 million deaths per year attributed to dirty water and poor sanitation.

19. Approximately 70% of the world's supply of fresh water is located in Antarctica, locked in 90% of the world's ice.

20. If all the world's water were fit into a gallon jug, the fresh water available for us to use would equal only about one tablespoon.

number 10 is one that everyone needs to think of, like be very aware of.