Sense Sonnet - Pumper

Sea Born

Captain Ed, the mate and the cook
Were out on a small shrimping boat.
The captain and mate undertook
To pull in all the nets afloat.
In labor, not the cooking kind,
The cook cried out of her distress.
A breach birth, the captain did find.
Thirty miles from land, more or less.
The captain pulled the newborn out,
Tied off the cord with fishing line,
Brought the baby's breathing about
With CPR, till all was fine.

They sailed out with a crew of 3.
A crew of 4 sailed back from sea.