Once young, when in Djibouti
Life Herself in the guise
of an enchanting beauty
gave him her deep well eyes
But she feigned not giving a hootie
when while blushing he praised her wrap
She pretended coy, cool & snooty
flustered, he could only tip his cap
Callow, thought he’d been rejected
so he told himself: retreat!
To a dive bar he defected
to nurse his awkward defeat
Under blistering sun in zenith
back later aboard his freighter
with in his sweltering bunk beneath
hangover on the equator
Once again hoists anchor his ship
such is life of the drunken sailor:
Off on another lonely trip
he sails away as his own jailer
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-Djibouti = a port on the southern entrance to the Red Sea
-freighter = cargo ship