Ah, pirates, pirates, pirates ! Love me and hate me, pirates ! Pirates, let me melt into you !

I want to be a beast acting out
all your gestures,
a beast sinking its teeth in keels
and gunwales.
Devouring masts and sopping up
blood
and tar on deck.
Chewing up sails and oars,
ropes and pulleys.
A monster female
sea-serpent,
gorging herself on crimes !

A symphony of sensations rises,
incompatible and
analogous,
An orchestration in my bloodstream
of tumultuous questions.

Raging like a hot gale in my soul...