Grecians

Grecians  

Hellas and the port of Piraeus hold a memory
in my seafarer’s heart, civilised people, no
they are not leaders of efficiency but you can
talk to them and expand your knowledge.
Not forgetting whores, they had time for a drink
sharing of a joke and didn’t hurry you.

In Hamburg it was never thus, no smiles, no foreplay
efficiency ruled; money on the table, the trousers
down fuck fast and get out, no need to take your
shoes off. Yet the Germans are the admired but
when they have nothing to export the Hellenic people
who will go on smoking cigarettes and being civilized.