Gin Rummy on the Gulf of Mexico

Gin Rummy on the Gulf of Mexico

Headed home over a sea prairie

the Gulf of Mexico

playing gin two miles above the ocean floor.

A lonely container ship passes in a southbound lane

I think it would wave if it could.

Sea air cools, clouds stack up on the northern horizon,

thunder rumbles in the distance like

Tuesday morning’s garbage truck.

Tomorrow? Cats, mail, a week of newspapers,

a long list of things to do.

Today?  More gin rummy with a view.

I’m winning 18 games to 12.

 

 

Day 7 on Norwegian Dawn in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.