Thursday, January 26, 2017

‘When The Chief Says’



A hazy circle round the sun or moon… Life jackets are not to be worn as a makeshift hat and I don’t give a guaddamned if yours blew overboard, that’s not my problem!
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Stars to ye right, tie the jib tight. Stars to ye left… we’re not paying you to sit out here and look at the gauddamned stars all night, OK?
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When swells roll steady from east to west… everyone on this boat is responsible for cleaning up their own puke, absolutely no exceptions!
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A pod of dolphins at your bow… Don’t everyone rush to the front at the same time please, it’s fucking dangerous!
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Evening red and morning grey… The next son-of-a-bitch who fires a flare because they “want to see how it looks” is staying on the boat when we dock in Phuket, is that clear?
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If the wind bears the scent of lavender afore noon… Grab a plunger and meet me in the crew shitters in ten minutes!
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Yellow sky at night… Why, Why, Why would you start a fight with the ship’s cook, the one guy on this boat with access to knives?
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Should a mob of gulls follow your mast… I thought I told you morons to stop feeding the fucking seagulls!
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Dense fog arriving swiftly at dawn… No one on this boat wants to hear you singing Bob Marley songs in your bunk every night so cut that shit out!
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Awake to dew still fresh on the grass… You got drunk and passed out in port again and the boat is definitely gone!
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Should a crow released be flying dead straight…  Just follow the son-of-a-bitch, alright?!?
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Clouds in the shape of a buxom young lass… That’s inappropriate and we absolutely will not tolerate any fucking environment that is hostile towards the ‘split tails,’ I mean the women on this ship!
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Orange sky at morning.. Are you absolutely fucking sure it’s not red? Completely, positively, 100% certain?  That looks pretty gauddamned red to me. If it’s actually red and this shit gets real, your ass is mine!!!

And that is how the Chief Says to Blow the Man Down!!!




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