Just for the hell of it, for the sheer relish of its rightness, I'd like to share with you the killer ending to Helena Nelson's "Ultimatum" from her terrific collection, Starlight on Water:
"...Come to bed, I said
shivering, now. Time later
when sad love's fed
to talk ultimata."
This is the ship better known in Britain as the *Zong*, because at some
time around the time of the trial associated with it, someone misread the
letter...
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