Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Oh, erudition!

They feted face to face, and struck
their fists against the mouldering wood;
While Mollie dangled, lost for luck
on yardarm from the crow's-nest looming penis-top.

At least, at last she'd fly, she thunk,
as wind-draft battered at her cloak;
Below the two had torn a chunk
of railing off the fo'c'sle for their mini jousting tournament.

The fated raven flew, and yea
returned not to their silly ship;
Poor sober Mollie gave a bray
when the assholes down below got out a bottle of single-malt scotch, still ignoring her.

4 comments:

Liz S... said...

Nice. That last line is the best one. By the way, what is fo'c'sle? Not a word.

Euclid's ontheBlock said...

sure as shi-nola is.

Jezebel said...

Fo'c'sle is short for "fore castle", the foremost deck of a ship. There's definitely a more precise definition, but I'm too lazy to look it up, and that'll give you a general enough idea.

Jezebel said...

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/forecastle

Ok, so I'm not too lazy.