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Teeter-Totter

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He was Popeye the Sailor Man          - at least in Picture book and poem         the mind falling from a drooping ledge,         thrust of twilight though working         up to the bargaining edge of words ...         Then, synchronicity and cuteness         aside, the all too old         pretending became the         gaping edge of Popeye's         spinach can, a soul lost         not to Sweet Pea or Olive         Oil, but barnacle and         rip-tides of a brain         slipping its moorings free.

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