I've seen a
few Americas !
Six years on
that ship, five crossings a year :
Europe,America
and back. AIways soaking in the ocean.
When you
stepped on Iand you couIdn't even piss straight in the
john.
It was steady,
the john I mean,
but you'd keep
bobbing Iike an idiot.
You can get
off a ship aII right, but off the ocean . . .
I was just
cIosing. What can I do for you?
When I boarded
I was twenty-four years oId,
and onIy cared
about one thing in Iife : pIaying the trumpet.
I'm seIIing
it.
A
Conn.
