Like a Stale Love Affair, You’ve Grown a Little Aged

Kevin Farran
3 min readJan 17, 2022

I closed the laptop on Medium too easily. That’s enough of her.

searching shelves in a book shop
Photo by Darwin Vegher on Unsplash

I know many consider a boat to be female.
“Arrrr, matey, she be a fine vessel.”
Trains and planes are also female, even vehicles. This is the often case, at least to men. I wonder if female writers address boats or planes as male?
“Oi, listen up you lot,” the barmaid screamed. “He’s a dam fine dinghy.”

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Kevin Farran

Kamakura based writer, lover of Great Danes, vintage cars, good red wine, bonsai and the Bard