Sailing under a false flag
We're crossing the IDL
Becalmed where no creature lives

Lost, forsaken, cursed

Holed below the water line
A shift in the plimsoll line
Pumps in the engine room

Women and children first

Hysterical, no humour
Sabotage, a rumour
Captainless and captionless

Injury, hunger, thirst
Reptile, prehensile
Servile, editorial
Gentile, fatal