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Rayong (Milton Keynes), Thailand |
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By Steve_K
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11 April 2008 |
Late, late night Whiskey soaked lips Words elusive as thoughts Finally finding a Thai bar
The go go girls smile We drink and surmise While deep in conversation The go go girls are guys
The next bar, bona fide Filipina Karaoke tangible Singing ourselves into soberness I feel helicopters in my head
I go back ‘home’ to the cold feel Of the steel floors and walls To the solitude and contempt None of which I am allowed express
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Written by mia_ms_kim (1019 comments posted) 10th April 2008 | I'm assuming this is another glimpse into your life as a seaman? "Whiskey soacked lips", "helicopters in my head", I thought, were strong imageries. They convey such sadness in the intoxication. I take it the 4th stanza is the ship. I don't understand the "contempt" bit, but the deep loneliness comes across very strongly. If I'm reading this right, I hope this is not an everyday experience of all seamen. It sounds very lonely. But a strong piece like all your poems are.
Mia  | Hi Steve
Written by maipenrai (783 comments posted) 10th April 2008 | Memories of The Land of Smiles hey 
Good write mate, only been to Rayong a couple of times.
Bernie | Thanks for the comments....
Written by Steve_K (55 comments posted) 11th April 2008 | Thanks mia and maipenrai for your comments, much appreciated. Yes Mia, this is yet another glimpse into that world. And no this is not an everyday experience, for me a I think about more when after having had a few too many.
Cheers maipenrai, I have to say Rayong has been the shitest place I've been, I hated it, hence the Milton Keynes reference. I found it really ugly and seedy. 'Memories of the Land of Smiles'...I don't think so, beneath that smile is cruelty. Thanks for the comment again though mate. | cheers steve
Written by maipenrai (783 comments posted) 11th April 2008 | for truly great s--t places of the world try monrovia or freetown, you been that part of the world mate
Bernie |
Written by Steve_K (55 comments posted) 12th April 2008 | | Yeah Bernie, I think I may have used the word shit improperly. I've been to Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania...now that was a shit place. I think Rayong was shit in that it made me angry ie. to go into one bar and see about 30 women sitting on sofa's watching TV behind a large glass pane. Men then went up to a microphone and picked the number of which woman that they wanted (the women were wearing stickers with numbers on them). I exited that place fairly lively lest I hit one of the men. Truly sickening sight. But yes I have been to many places shittier but not in seedy sense of shit! Cheers... | Hi Steve
Written by maipenrai (783 comments posted) 12th April 2008 | Understand what you mean re the bars and the girls, I ran a non-girlie bar in Pattaya for three years, a disaster in economic terms, no girls=no customers=Bernie losing the bar!!!!!
I think , don't know what I think on this one to be truthful, I used to have heated discussions with a Thai Mate, he blamed the western tourist for the sex trade, when I pointed out that the biggest exploitors of thai women were the thai's he used to get well upset.
the fact is that this type of thing as been going on in thailand forever, go down south and you will see just what you describe and it's all thai run.
never been to Dar-es Salaam but I will say that Monrovia or Freetown are places not to put on your "places to visit list" |
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