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A Life On The Ocean Wave (Extra Gay Version)

A life on the ocean wave, ho!
In the olden days of sail
When pirate ships were proud and brave
And their crews were very male.

Captain Cock stood upon his bridge
Looking smart and flash;
And below the decks, the orders were
Rum and bum and the lash.

First Mate Mick went to the poop deck,
He was really ready;
Initiation time had come
For trainee pirate Freddy.

"Thtwap him o'er that cannon, ladth!"
Roared the hirsute lisper,
"Gag hith mouth thecurely, ladth,
Thilenth hith evewy whithper."

The pirates did as he had bid -
Refuse and they'd be punished -
And they knew their turn would come
Once First Mate Mick had finished.

The lisping brute approached the cute young lad
And soon was having it away;
Dear little Fred called out in joy -
As he was really very gay.

Then came the turn of the other men
And they joined in with a will;
Little Freddy loved it all so much
He could never have his fill.

What a life our pirates had,
Always singing shanties;
When men were men and big and butch
And the skipper wore silk panties.

The pirates' frigates ruled the waves -
Straight sailors feared them coming;
If captured, they'd be condemned
To a life of seaborne bumming.

About This Poem

Style/Type: Structured: Western

Review Request Intensity: I appreciate moderate constructive criticism

Editing Stage: Editing - polished draft

About the Author

Region, Country: London, Culture Capital of the World

Favorite Poets: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Chaucer, Shakespeare to name but a few. And VERY IMPORTANTLY: Erich Fried, a leftwing Austrian of Jewish ancestry who fled the Nazis and became a British citizen in 1949., And, other writers (non-poets mainly): Raymond Chandler, Irvine Welsh, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, Charles Bukowski, John le Carré, Anthony Horowitz, Mick Herron, Margaret Attwood, Edna O'Brian, Maeve Binchy., Writers who I find vastly over-rated: TS Eliot, Virgina Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Phil Larkin, E.A. Poe, A. Ginsburg, Longfellow, Gerald Manley Hopkins (actually I LOATHE Hopkins more than damson-dappled words can say).

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Comments

Geezer

Geezer

5 years 5 months ago

I have no doubt...

that anywhere else, you would be keel-hauled for this poem, as it describes a forcible contact upon an unwilling participant.
Just sayin'.
~ Geezer.
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Edna Sweetlove

Edna Sweetlove

5 years 5 months ago

Nah...

...he enjoyed every minute of it.

He was only pretending - to keep up appearances that he was straight.

Edna Sweetlove

Edna Sweetlove

5 years 5 months ago

Thank you...

...for your kind and polite comments. I enjoyed them immensely.

Much appreciated.
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Edna Sweetlove

Edna Sweetlove

5 years 5 months ago

I'll take that in the spirit I hope it was meant...

...i.e. that you felt calling me "sick" was not the most tactful way of saying you didn't like the verse, which were intended to be amusing and not an unqualified approval of botty-rape.
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So, peace again twixt us two.
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Edna Sweetlove

Edna Sweetlove

5 years 5 months ago

I understand that some prudes have complained...

...about this poem (anonymously, of course). Since I am unwilling to submit to prudish censorship, I have decided to amend the poem. There is now NO enforced activity - the trainee pirate is a willing participant, indeed he loves everything.
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Edna Sweetlove

Edna Sweetlove

5 years 5 months ago

Unpublished...

...following a request.

Edna Sweetlove

Edna Sweetlove

5 years 5 months ago

Republished...

...but marked "explicit".