I nearly got away.
By Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (14873)
Ireland
June 28, 2026 3:42pm CST
The taste of something eternal lingers in the colour of the wine tonight. From a yellowed page a few lines of Baudelaire awakened in me an appetite for sights and smells; purple silks, dusky maidens and a three-masted schooner lying at anchor in an exotic harbour.
Even as I spoke some lines aloud into the empty night, salt that had been carried on an ocean breeze from Zanzibar began to crystallise on my lips. A boat called 'Vagabond' slunk out of the harbour at Honfleur, its crew hoping to get to the South Seas by winter. Unfortunately it left without me.
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@RasmaSandra (98537)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
9h
I would not mind hopping aboard a ship and just sailing away but you could not get me up in a plane,
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@LooeyVille (47)
• United States
9h
Would you like to hop on a ship and take off to parts unknown
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@xFiacre (14873)
• Ireland
9h
@looeyville YES, so long as it was a slow freighter that takes just about 6 passengers, calling at small ports in the south seas and the other passengers were all spies or defrocked priests. No discos.
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