2.Flag Ship Series: Master & Commander
A criticism of poor industry practices.
>Directors Chair: “Camera’s Are Rolling Now!
Boom operator make sure to catch all of the sound!
Pan through scene: silhouette seen,
Ship-shaped form, crew on port, keen!
Costumes loaded, more or less,
Back-ground back-drop lazily dressed,
Features seen here, not later,
(Quick-time, man fight with ‘gator),
Lightings done! God, Ray is good!
Motor-boat (donkey under hood!).
Places, people, waste not time!
ACTION! Get on with this rhyme!<
U, Raise the Flag! The Crew Bi coming Aboard!
Soft sellin’ us things we paid for once before!
Hoist the Main Sale but dont peek under the sheets,
A Far Cry from original, Crysis from the deep.
Here come those Assassin Brothers all under their hoods.
Alta’ir you a new one just to make myself look good.
>Cut below the deck, pan down,
Hot-swapped bunks and working sounds,
Insert ‘Creak_From_Door’ once more,
Stereo-tropic choral chore:<
Des’ more of that, Miles to come!
Absturgism is so much fun!
No play til the work is done!
Glyphin’ up on feathers, mum!
Kenway is as Con-way does!
‘Troller is down! In disgust!
Trading Blows! Across the waves.
Misty UI Lazy Haze.
>Port side industrial smog.
Unified like cats and dogs.
Faces blank without emote.
Dockyard full of half built boats.
Common faces Arno more,
Bay’ek, sand across the floor?
The Origins, hard to tell,
If this format works so well?<
This song we sing, old as time!
Odyssey is sailing rhyme!
All our tales are mostly myth,
Dug from the hold to re-gift!
>Long ship is a life raft now!
Plug the drain holes in the bow!
Ab-Stern’s S’cardboard, portmanteau!
Many more verses to go!<
No guessing where I’m gonna lay the blame, hey!
The guys in the hold tryna’ row for their pay!
It dont really matter we dont pay you for your lunch!
For ‘Shore Leave’ is cancelled ‘till we’ve beaten ‘Captain Crunch!’
The Quartermaster tells me that everything is fine!
Just a few ‘Bad Apples’ that wont stand in line!
Keel Haul dissenters or make them Walk the Plank!
All that they did for us is already In The Bank!
*excuse me for this section,
The ‘Sound Team Interjection’*
- I’d add an instrumental, to break it down,
But theres no fun times in the galleys allowed!
Ona’s been Harmed and they’ve been Squeezing my Box!
And they keep stuffing my ‘gurdy’ with their stinkin’ socks -
Alright crew, listen up quick,
Strip D sails, nails, and L strips!
I’ve got a Theseus that’ll make us some booty!
They’ll only be required when we’re out at C!
We’ll take on these other crews,
Move up, they’ll sleep next to you!
We’ll do it all nice and fair!
Claim their booty, split their share!
But if the next raid goes bust,
‘Last In, First Out, must is must!’
Their vessel still will be ours!
Scrap and sell the working oars!
>Cut to scene ‘Trouble at Sea’
D ReeM to reality!<
>”Hands to Deck! Ghost Ship Spotted!”
>“Roger, read flag?” -‘Industry Is Rotted!’
>“You Stole My Patch and you wear it as your own!
Legit Colours? Pirate Throne!”