A couple of ships collided on the Welland Canal last weekend - the waterway that bypasses Niagara Falls, not far from here. The video is definitely not something you see every day.

I wonder what Gordon Lightfoot would have said. Hmm.

The legend lives on From Ontarians on down Of the shipping canal they call "Welland"

There’s room, they all cry For two ships to pass by If the captains are paying attention

When a load of black coal Met a ship that was full Of some windmill parts for Minnesota

And the beeper it beeped As the other ship creeped Closer, not changing course one iota

Bystanders, it’s known Filmed the scene with their phones As they shouted out, “She’s gonna hit ‘er”

The collision, it showed Now they’ve got to upload it to Instagram, Facebook and Twitter

Sing along if you like! Here’s a karaoke backing track!

update

People seemed to like this poetry when I tweeted it, even though I’m not going to win too many awards for trying to rhyme “welland” and “attention”. I thought I was pretty hot stuff. I got a dozen likes between facebook and twitter.

And then my son tweeted a video he’d made, something to do with Super Smash Bros, and I totally don’t understand it but his has, so far, 1,983 retweets and 8,295 likes, which I think is more than I’ve got in total in 13 years of using Twitter.

I don’t understand it. But I’m a proud dad.