Modern Cruise Liners......A poem.

[dodgy-alan 1,587]

Modern Cruise Ships.

 

For all their fancy gear aboard,
for all thier luxury fittings,
They look just like,
Big blocks of flats
That you and I just sit in!

A city block,
with a pointed bit
Where the rich buggers tend to sit
whilst down below
old jack does't sweat
to keep the companies deadlines met,
And then the punters go ashore,
Whilst jack makes do with a dockside whore.

Then when they're back in Englands arms,
the punters tell of all the charms, the life ,the world, the things they see,
the life of travelling by sea,
But poor old jack, he's work to do,
He's part of such a busy crew
To get the ship all spick and span
So's more rich bods can leave the land.
But do they really see the sea,
like poor old jacks like you and me?

 

© Alan Gale, Nov 2014.

 

[hifly 925]

Very good Al, here's one for you.

 

There was a young man called Gale,

The seven seas he did sail.

He served on large tankers,

His shipmates were wan

But now he just hankers,

For flying,

Now that's his holy Grail.

[MartinW 0]

On the good ship Venus,

 

 

Oops, no I can't do that one.

 

[hifly 925]

We used to sing this old one at infants school.

 

The Grand old Duke of York,

He had ten thousand men,

His case comes up next week.

[MartinW 0]

[dodgy-alan 1,587]

Suzanne was a lady with plenty of class
Who knocked the boys dead when she wiggled her

Eyes at the fellows as girls sometimes do
To make it quite plain that she wanted to

Go for a walk or a stroll through the grass,
Then hurry back home for a nice piece of

Ice cream and cake and a piece of roast duck,
And after each meal she was ready to

Go for a walk or a stroll on the dock
With any young man with a sizeable

Roll of green bills and a pretty good front,
And if he talked fast enough, she would show him her

Little pet dog who's subject to fits,
And maybe let him grab hold of her

Little white hand with a movement so quick.
Then she'd lean over and tickle his

Chin while she showed what she once learned in France,
And asked the poor fellow to take off his

Coat while she sang "Off the Mandalay Shore,"
For whatever she was, Suzanne was no whore.

[dodgy-alan 1,587]

Oh, the sexual life of the camel
Is stranger than anyone thinks.
In moments of amorous passion,
He frequently buggers the Sphinx.

But the Sphinx's posterior passage
Is clogged with the sands of the Nile,
Which accounts for the hump on the camel,
And the Sphinx's inscrutable smile.