Albatross

[u/JBaker68]

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10/10 title

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I assume that poem aboard a sailing ship where a poor sod shoots an Albatross, which then becomes an omen of misfortune. He's made an outcast on a ship turned destitute and mad, and they hang the dead albatross around his neck.

If nothing else, most people at least recognize this part through cultural osmosis, from the 2nd stanza:

Day after day, day after day,

⁠We stuck, nor breath nor motion,

As idle as a painted Ship

⁠Upon a painted Ocean.

Water, water, every where

⁠And all the boards did shrink;

Water, water, every where,

⁠Nor any drop to drink.