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#ho hey is a great song too and also im very tired lol
sameteeth · 3 years
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today was a long day with no catches. im at a shark research program that's been heavily effected by the red tide, and this is our second day without any catches on any of the three boats. there had been a storm and i sat on the bow of the boat, wind snapping my shirt and rain so hard i could barely see. i was soaked to the bone. it was amazing. fishing at night is a strange feeling. we watched lightning strike as we came back to port with no new sharks tagged.
and yet.
we rode back to the apartments we are staying in quietly. everyone was tired and no one felt much for talking. nothing to talk about, i suppose. i sat between my friend and another student there from iceland. although the program isn't big, it draws people from everywhere. ho hey by the lumineers came on. it was an intern's playlist.
and we all sang together. not everyone knew all the words, but we all sang in the dark, in spite of the death that littered the water, in spite of the storm, in spite of the exhaustion, in spite of our fruitless efforts. we all sang, and we all belonged.
it was a lovely end to a lovely day
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