Detectors

They’ve invented shoal detectors

     For the ships when nearing shore,

There’re detectors for the ice-bergs,

     And a dozen dangers more.

They’ve detectors and detectors

     Some are good and some are bad;

But there’s one they’ve not perfected

     If they had I would be glad.

I don’t travel, so detectors

     For the ice-bergs won’t help me;

Though detectors of disasters

     Are a blessing, I’ll agree.

What I’d like is a detector,

     One to call my very own,

That will warn me of the fellow

     Who’s about to try a “loan”!

April 4, 1913

For Tuesday,

  April 8, ‘13

note – I made the rare exception and changed the spelling from ‘detecters’.

side note – The Titanic sank on April 15, 1912.