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Other UpStarts - Spring 2002: A Dark and Stormy Night | Among | At Home | Cloud | Colors That Make Noises | Cranberry Talks | Crow | Forget-me-not | God Needed a Captain | Like a Flare | Limerick | On the Prowl | Remembering | Run the Distance | Stream | The Beach | The Dragon | The Night the Moon Went Black | To J.T. My Best Friend | To My Mom |



God Needed a Captain

I didn’t know a lot about him
Except people love him
And he was young
He drove his boat through Venice canals
And he took me watching the sunset a couple of times
“God needed a captain”
My little sister said when my cousin died
it doesn’t happen very often
But when she said it I cried
That’s all I remember of him
Enough to not forget him.

Emanuel Bellini (Italy)
Age 18
Willamette High School, With Robert Hill Long


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