The Ship Officer and a Lady

The ship officer and the Lady As I waited for my ship to dock at the onion pier, a clerk came and handed me a bag of garlic for the ship, I told him I had not ordered any and showed him my three silver rings on my uniform. He smirked and said I must have borrowed it to impress the gullible, I shrank inside the uniform and could not see my hands and feet. Met a lady who was waiting for the ship too, she was the wife of the chief engineer, and together we strolled to the end of the dock, where I resentfully threw the bag of garlic into the sea where it swelled, became a life boat that slowly drifted away. Back at the spot where the ship was supposed to dock we’re told the ship had come and gone. The lady sat on a pollard crying, took her wedding ring off and threw it into the water, I, who had taken Lasix 40, peed into the same sea and its water turned pink. “Truly, this man is a saint someone whispered”. Confident again I swelled in the uniform and could see my hands and feet . The clerk asked forgiveness and kissed the onyx ring on my left index finger and gave me another bag of garlic.