christmas day

Christmas Day

Christmas day no ships anchored in the bay which

has crested waves that turn into cream like spray

when reaching sandy shores.  

The crew  wouldn´t have minded that so much,

as it is they are on ships that rolls and pitches

endlessly in the Atlantic sea waiting for Yule to be

over when normal trading begins.

To day there are no revolts in Africa, and there is no

war in Syria, because bad news has been suspended,

but there is a movie about a carpenter trainee who

became a preacher, but since I have seen the film before

I will go for a walk and try not to think of seafarers´ lack of

sleep, or poverty that hides in the nooks of Cascais, a town

 famous only because a king once spent a summer there,