World Cruise

A fat brochure arrived today:
Come book a world-wide cruise
For 2021; Come on!
What have you got to lose?

You get two choices, based on length –
One hundred sixty-one
Or just one hundred forty days
Of sailing in the sun.

The cheapest stateroom’s fifty-three,
That’s thousands; for a pair,
Just double that. The better rooms
Accelerate from there.

The owner’s suite, for two,
Adds up to (gasp!) three-forty thou.
Does such a number sound obscene?
The answer is, “And how!”

To visit ports around the globe,
There’s so much you can see,
But reading the brochure, I thought,
“Why was this sent to me?”