Wednesday, January 18

Costa Concordia


Profile: Capt Francesco Schettino

"Listen Schettino, perhaps you have saved yourself from the sea, but I will make you look very bad. I will make you pay for this. Dammit, go back on board!" Capt De Falco says.

Traveling carnival
Glittering village on ocean
Gleaming as glacier,

What lies below your calm waters?
Hidden shoals threatening thousands,
Forcing this floating fortress,
This house of cards,
Into the deep.

Of course, I left them
What would you have done?
Listen to the howl of 4,000 lost lambs?
Separate women and children, like some modern Titanic?
Stand there and drown, a heroic bloated corpse?

In inky night, blind stuff of nightmare
I commandeered a lifeboat and saved my own skin

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