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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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The speaker recounts a mutiny, a newspaper report and exploited ship labor, then recalls drinking, wrestling and feverish disorientation after leaving the ship.
The speaker measures bravado against the workers' burdens and personal illness, then associates sickness with losing the chance to dream. The claims about malaria and the press belong to the narrative and do not establish a medical or historical account.
The voyage and its aftermath: 'Of a 1964 kind of mutany / We rode on engine sails toward Fiji', the report that the 'Hell Ship Trangie' 'Did hit the front page', and the speaker's later illness in port, ending 'And began to wander in space toward the men's room'.
The tone moves from a boast of drinking and wrestling contests to a feverish 'absolute hallucination', so the adventure yarn sours into sickness. The 'Architectural man' stays a watchful counterweight to the speaker's bravado.