#2139 - tears of the sea

 

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tears of the sea

 

these pretty deaths

 

bauble and bright

 

a quick chat on the polypipe phone

 

the island diving

 

only five percent fail

 

no stone without a dollar says

 

nor life nor limb but risk

 

of the mines I mean

 

filing and sanding and sawing

 

drowned in the first facet

 

in the shop of hammers

 

gem on a stick to work

 

glass polished to show

 

and thigh high in all the day mud

 

generation after generation

 

the colour, the cut and the clarity

 

30 to 40 meters of peril

 

the ferns stuffed side of the shaft for flimsy

 

with all the proper permits, insurance

 

robbing the earth of its tears