World Cruise

A fat brochure arrived today: Come book a world-wide cruise For 2021; Come on! What have you got to lose? You get two choices, based on length – One hundred sixty-one Or just one hundred forty days Of sailing in the sun. The cheapest stateroom’s fifty-three, That’s thousands; for a pair, Just double that. The better rooms Accelerate from there. The owner’s suite, for two, Adds up to (gasp!) three-forty thou. Does such a number sound obscene? The answer is, “And how!” To visit ports around the globe, There’s so much you can see, But reading the brochure, I thought, “Why was this sent to me?”