moves through uncharted waters
30 days without restocking.
£55m and we’ll call it a deal.
Want something lower?
3m buys your own submarine.
Super-rich individuals
seek remoteness,
just want adventure.
Remoteness includes refusing to pay
for a new lifeboat in St Tropez.
Like Titanic, you know you’ll never need it.
© Sue Norton
Sue Norton has had poems published in various magazines. She was a prizewinner in the 2017 Rialto/RSPB Nature Poetry competition.