Sailor’s Life
Line handling
Making fast
Treading carefully on the wet decks
Deafening winds screaming imprecations so violently
Going aloft
Treacherous climb
Holding on
Thirty footers
Hurricane winds
His work needs to be done
The life of a sailor man
Long hours
Low pay
Salt spray
On liberty
Spending money
Has a girl in every port
Always writes to his Momma
Drinking rum
Having fun
Sailor’s Life
© 2012 Tim D. Culey