February 5, 2018
At sea off the coast of Baja California
First full day of cruise.
February 5, 2018
At sea off the coast of Baja California
First full day of cruise.
Listen to the Lido ambience
Each voice a different dialect
Country twang music backdrop
Dishes and utensils percussion
Smell the humid air
Not briny or fishy
Thick and moist
Relatively cool
Faint breeze.
Look across the Pacific
To west coast of Baja California
Faintly on this horizon
2:06pm
Smell the coffee
In 10 Forward
Seeing reflections of this heavy man
Thick with regrets and unbridled appetites
Moving carefully
On painful soles
Beneath an overburdened torso
Needing enlightenment.
Hear waves
Lapping lightly against the hull
Five stories down
And a low rumble of engines.
Don't think about things
Or think about thinking
When there are smells to smell
Sights that need seeing
Sounds and tastes
Touching
Stay The Course.
Be advised
You 'll make out well in the end
Look west toward a setting sun
From this view table in The Lido
With New York cut steak
Carrots and stuffed potato
Sunset across the sea
Seventeen miles from shore
Off Mexico's west coast