Brexit!  Grexit, Texit?

What's next?  Will they hook up with a trophy country?

Britons came out in force

And voted to sue for divorce

They said screw the EU

And its petty rules too,

Let's be friends, with benefits of course!

Is it any surprise that the campaign to Leave left the truth behind?  See the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/22/opinion/who-is-to-blame-for-brevets-appeal-british-newspapers.html?WT.mc_id=D-NYT-MKTG-MOD-52814-0625-HD&WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_c=

England for the Britons they say
Get the EU out of our way
The vote was resounding
The Pound took a pounding
Many schemes gang aft agley.

Ship's Blog

Somewhat abbreviated and incomplete.  For a more accurate account you will have to wait for the Captain's post on - http://www.sy-thetis.org - probably this fall, after he edits his story of this summer's excursions.  But there is plenty to read and see about earlier trips.

On Saturday we sailed out of Samos
And moored off the island of Patmos
A volcanic crater
That the sea filled up later
During the era of Cronos.

Cronos - Zeus's father and leader of the previous regime.

On Patmos St. John was given
A detailed and world ending vision
Violent and vivid
Because God got livid
With man, in St. John's opinion.

Update

Limericks seem frivolous and inconsequential in the land of Homer and Pythagorus.. Though humor is still essential.

A one hour drive to Bangor
Five bus hours to Logan airport
To Zurich overnight
A seven hour flight
Then Athens in three hours more.

Sixteen hours strapped to a chair
Barreling through the thin air
Our final stop
A one hour hop
To Samos and then we were there.

All I Have To Do Is

I get plenty of exercise because I’m always running - behind.

My to do list preys on my mind

I think that my brain was designed

To postpone and delay

To find a Better Way

That’s why I am so far behind.

Some tasks, like washing dishes, laundry, mowing the lawn, weeding etc. are never done, because they just start up again as soon as you think you are finished.

Zombie tasks are never much fun

Sapping all vigor and animation

Despite all your work

They return and they lurk 

And haunt you, forever undone.

In Other Words

I posted an incomplete limerick about Bernie and Hillary that took me a while to finish.

If the wire is where these two meet

The criticisms they’ve voiced in the heat

May come back to haunt them

Trump will use them to taunt them

And it’s Trump that we have to defeat.

Yeah Him!  - From the NY Times:  

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/us/politics/donald-trump-republican-fundraising.html

But others simply believe Mr. Trump is unfit to serve in the Oval Office. Michael K. Vlock, a Connecticut investor who has given nearly $5 million to Republicans at the federal level since 2014, said he considered Mr. Trump a dangerous person.

“He’s an ignorant, amoral, dishonest and manipulative, misogynistic, philandering, hyper-litigious, isolationist, protectionist blowhard,” Mr. Vlock said.

Mr. Vlock said he might give to Hillary Clinton instead, describing her as “the devil we know.”

He’s a draft dodging war mongering phony

A backstabbing litigious crony

A bigoted, tactless

Bullying, tactless

Spewer of odious baloney.