Christmas Day

Christmas Day Christmas day no ships anchored in the bay which has crested waves that turn into cream like spray when reaching sandy shores. The crew wouldn´t have minded that so much, as it is they are on ships that rolls and pitches endlessly in the Atlantic sea waiting for Yule to be over when normal trading begins. To day there are no revolts in Africa, and there is no war in Syria, because bad news has been suspended, but there is a movie about a carpenter trainee who became a preacher, but since I have seen the film before I will go for a walk and try not to think of seafarers´ lack of sleep, or poverty that hides in the nooks of Cascais, a town famous only because a king once spent a summer there,