ICEBERG VICTIM.(Poem)

 
   Since the Titanic you've had a bad reputation. 
   The brutal collision, women and children in freezing water, 
   men saving themselves first--a thoroughly disreputable tale. 
   Writers and commentators expended enormous effort 
   presenting the victims' side of the story, and almost none 
   on yours. About all we heard was how big you were, 
   how cold, how cruelly indifferent. 
 
   Nobody interviewed you, asked you what it felt like 
   to have an ocean liner smash into your rear end, 
   to have all those people screaming and dying right 
   beside you, to have your good name blackened around 
   the globe. Two movies followed. But all we saw were 
   brave crewmen shovelling coal in flooding boiler-rooms, 
   grand pianos falling from upside-down ballrooms, 
   and wussy little geeks hamming it up before your mighty 
   visage. 
 
   It's time to end this injustice. All you ever wanted 
   was to roam the oceans in peace. A mighty mass of 
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