The Corinth Canal

The Corinth Canal We`re not sailing to the Athens, but follow the Corinth canal to Piraeus not that I cared the ship was old and I fought a daily battle to keep cockroaches away from the food we were slaves back then working long hours and no cold water to drink- by the way the canal has steep cliffs- and could have been built by the gods Pre- container days, ships were longer in port, we made extra money by selling American cigarette, no wonder, have you ever smoked a Hellenic cigarette it tastes like an ashtray in a bar the night before. I went to a Geek Orthodox church had a hangover felt I had to do atonement from my excess would be nice they also handed out bags of sweet cakes, I ate the cakes lined up for more but two heavyweight priests with glutinous lips threw me out; I might have been drunk, but I like cakes. Sat in the park with a woman they had thrown out too, an old socialist so we chanted slogans against Greece and her lack of democracy, the colonels who ruled back then didn`t take this lightly I was arrested but bailed out by the captain who said I was a cook, confused, but not a revolutionary.