Round the World
By Ewan
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All the way,
Eastabout.
Muddy brown
agricultural
50’s technology
Corfu-elled then
overnight in Oman;
3 grains of fried rice
and a bucket of beer
real ethnic flavours
untried, unwanted.
Three whole hours
(more fuel)
in the most beautiful
place, the Maldives
what a waste!
KL instead of
Butterfield.
Lucky boys:
no girls on board,
wonder why?
3 hours guard
on the aircraft.
Top Secret, you know.
12 hours binge shift
with your least favourite
crew member.
Played pool with a gorgeous
Chinese ‘til knobhead
said he’d never seen
a Chinky bird with
a fat arse before.
Early hungover
engine start
squinting out the window
at the Barrier Reef
before downtime in Darwin
50,000 lbs of fuel
in 4 hours and off again.
To Adelaide and
7 days off!
Saw Jacob’s Creek;
a trickle, no more.
Out all night in
the Black Rose;
accompanied a
stranger to the suburbs,
watched her bong it
- said no thanks.
Saw Aussie Rules
for the last time.
Mboola they said
on arrival in Fiji;
we found bars
met beautiful,
beautiful girls.
Played a round of golf
and a man climbed a tree
to get us a cocoanut.
Dateline crossed to Hawaii
Umberto’s Island of the day before
Cocktails and Kahuna
in the Blackpool
of the Pacific.
We saw a girl jump from
the Waikiki Outrigger
roof. Stopped the traffic
for exactly 17 minutes.
Whidby Island:
Washington
State to you.
Home of fishermen
and consanguinity.
So bad one guy
took a ferry to Seattle
to meet a bunny boiler.
Made take off with
an hour to spare.
Goose Bay, cold
every time of year.
Calisthenics
to keep warm on the
aircraft pan. Yes,
refuelling
takes longer
in the cold.
Last touchdown:
around the
world in just
seventeen
days plus the
one we found
high above
the Pacific.
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