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Ko opazujemo lepoto, jo vsak gleda z lastnimi očmi. Zaplate snega v zimskem soncu. Naježena koža nadlahti. Jezno, razburkano morje, ki bo požrlo obalo pred seboj. A najčistejša lepota je tista, ki jo vidimo, pa je ne moremo razumeti. Ki nas neskončno čudi in skoraj malo ujezi. Ki nas s svojo brezmejnostjo zaplete v misli, ki nimajo konca. Lahko smo pustolovci, znanstveniki ali tatovi. Nekaterim stvarem nikoli ne bomo prišli do dna.

So I said, "Men, pull her out of the water

And then lay on hands

And bind back her flippers and tail
Until international waters, and there

We’ll feel what's human inside of her"

So she's chilly and slick

On her hips where the scales meet with skin

With a sickening flick of her tail, circling

Her gills fill with cold, salty water

And she thrashes and twirls, her freezing fins fluttering

But she's pretty, I think, with her hair dark as ink

And her belly bone-white

And her lips of a slight, sea-shell, pink

Slightly part as she's tonguing the tub's rusty rim
As the saltwater flows out and in

All farewells to the land we know well
We'll never be touching again

To the fields where we rambled and ran

Farewell to our wives and children
Let's stand on the deck and let's watch

Them all disappearing

And the days all float by in a daze, over waves, under sky

And the weeks slowly leak into years

The last islands are all left behind as we silently sail
Until late some dark night, a wild wind starts to wail

And our map blows away and our compasses fail

And it's out on the lost boiling black water
Where I see her float out, and she's so thin and so pale

I see her rise up, she's so fast and so fair

My hands meet and they press to a point in the air
But my mouth fills with more panic than prayer

And my skull fills with more color than care

And my heart fills with love, with too much love to bear

And I know that I'll stay, and that she'll always be there

My hands sunk in cold sand, sea-weed strung through her hair