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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CABIN-KID, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE
First Line: Your old man's a sailor, I suppose?
Last Line: I'll get revenge-a sailor too!
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails
First Line: Your old man's a sailor, I suppose?
Last Line: I'll get revenge-a sailor too!
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails
Your old man's a sailor, I suppose? . . .
-A fisherman. A long time dead.
He left my mother's side one night,
And sleeps in the breakers now instead.
Up in the graveyard there's a tomb
Ma keeps for him-it's empty, though-
I'm all the husband that she has
To help her while the children grow.
Two little ones. -Nothing was found
Along the beach where he was drowned? . . .
-Only his pipe-case and a shoe . . .
When Sundays come, Mother can stop
And cry for rest . . . But when I grow up
I'll get revenge-a sailor too!
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