Our pilot on the Delaware
offers to show you
his laptop.
These are the buoys, he says;
I know exactly where I am
to within a metre.
This is the same way we track
our missiles
and drones.
You stare
for a moment
and say oh.
Then remembering your manners
add
thank you for showing me.
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