“Better is the little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked.”
The thief’s pockets were
packed with plunder
from a busy night
on the Lido Deck:
diamond bracelets,
strings of pearl,
rare coins swept up
in the theft.
Within the hour
a freak reef strike
quickly brought
the old ship down.
Of all the passengers
floundering about,
only one of them
was drowned.