Black dogs tall ships sailing legends aboard the Shenandoah
Blacks dogs born and built this ship take people out one day at a time as a big wind jammer!
A lot of names for those ships you see them in Rockland Maine half way up the coast of Maine
But this one is from Matha’s Vineyard off of cape cod I never looked into it too expensive can’t afford it
I try not to cry about it for fear of being called too sensitive
Luxurious lives on those boats this girl named misery once jumped a float she used to
Live on a ship called The Schooner; people used to joke about it “the Schooner the better” they used to call it
One time my friend Gaye invited me to see the bay rich white gay man all on display
Told him I’ve never been on a boat so I got no sea legs he asked “well how did you come here from Africa?”
“I flew, I flew Air America…” He said they even have a schooner in Boston Harbor they call it The Liberty
Back in the days when scorned people fought to be free they used to serve up Sunday brunch
Wealthy people got on board and munch munch munch! The Sun shone bright those lazy days…
Summer days when the air smelled like green while poor people gazed then came the recession
So the ships found a new direction they all sailed to Florida couldn’t get any business too cold this time of year
No tourists except between May and September to see black dogs hung for adventure
Forty years ago souvenir shops were cheaper now that black dogs cost a lot more they’re rarer
Since they’ve all moved on to better weather now this side of the sea bacteria multiplies
With the speed of a giant panther malaria is having a blast. A procession of people in body casts!
Their hearts fire dying from hunger no one wants to lend a hand to the man in the sewer.
Jacques Fleury is a Boston Globe featured Haitian American Poet, Educator, Author of four books and literary arts student at Harvard University online. His latest publication “You Are Enough: The Journey to Accepting Your Authentic Self” & other titles are available at all Boston Public Libraries, the University of Massachusetts Healey Library, University of Wyoming, Askews and Holts Library Services in the United Kingdom, The Harvard Book Store, The Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Amazon etc… He has been published in prestigious publications such as Spirit of Change Magazine, Wilderness House Literary Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, Litterateur Redefining World anthologies out of India, Poets Reading the News, the Cornell University Press anthology Class Lives: Stories from Our Economic Divide, Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene among others…Visit him at: http://www.authorsden.com/jacquesfleury.–
