The journalist's ode to a ship hijacked by Somali pirates
A journalist's ode to a freight ship hijacked by Somali pirates somewhere in the Gulf of Aden on a sunny Sunday in May:
The Lady Amiya Scan
is a ship in a jam
and could use some help on the double.
She's a freighter you know,
with an oil rig cargo,
in deep multicultural trouble.
Owned by the Dutch but chartered by Danes,
she was pinching the pennies but risking the flames,
crewed by four Russians and five Filipinos.
She set sail from Kenya last week,
her flag Panamanian (not Greek),
due in Romania today, mas o menos
But somewhere in the Gulf of Aden,
Somali pirates struck yet again,
outmanning her crew oh so greatly.
Said Cap. Pottengal Mukundan,
an (Indian) expert based in London,
"It's been happening quite often lately."
What do you think, do I make a chance at getting into Versal?
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