Cruise Brochures

Viking sends me sleek brochures

For every kind of cruise.

I guess they figure that they really

Don’t have much to lose.

 

There certainly must be a lot

Of people who will look

And then be wowed enough to find

A trip they want to book.

 

We’ve traveled with them several times

Before pandemic days

And for the tours that they provide,

I have the highest praise.

 

My interest in that type of trip

Has waned, yet in the mail,

The catalogues keep coming;

All that effort’s bound to fail.

 

Perhaps to companies that big,

To go to that expense

Is worth it if such nudges

Push some people off the fence.