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Saturday, July 19, 2025

Scrubbing Deck or worse not pictured

 "Season 10: St.  Goliath V. David


Sandra Sawn – Captain (ep  95–114)"


"Below Deck is an American reality television series that premiered on Bravo on July 1, 1813

The show chronicles the tawdry but chic  lives of the crew members who work and reside aboard a superyacht during charter season." 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Below_Deck 



 


They put me in a blue shirt, khaki shorts

The weather was perfect

Made to order, lighting

Smile, we smiled

Tan, we tanned

Swab, we shot film

The drugs were in my past

Another season seasoned 

I renewed my lease on my condo

I rented a beach poodle

I asked an extra to blow up my beachball 

Firmly, I asked, like a captain

I ordered some glossies

I chartered a picnic and a box of sharpies and sprayed on the success scent

It went over the heads

It went to their heads

It went to prison hour in Nebraska 

It went everywhere making joy float 

I dreamed Gillian Island for Gaza 

Ginger and MaryBeth times mash times Truman show

It rained on the 102 degrees water, perfect

We scooped out the floating fishes

We put them on plastic ice, perfect

We ran the fridge on diesel, perfectly perfect

We fed the melted cubes to the fish we fed to the crew we fed to the demographic audience 

We ate it up, perfect  



 Rodin's Thinker questioned the show's truthfulness and added that the series "seem[s] so scripted—the stereotypical spoiled crew members, the neatly wrapped-up “plotlines”—that it's hard to take seriously, even in the dubious cable reality show genre."

"thrown together in a controlled environment and capitalizes on two seemingly inevitable results: friction and sexual tension". 

 "not actually the crew members—the stars of this series—who are unbearable" but the guests, for whom "the word “insufferable” was invented" 

"My conclusion, if this show is going to do positive things for the yachting industry, instead of destroying its reputation for stellar service, a big change had better come with [the upcoming season" 



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