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The Camera Cage

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As a child, all common sense decreed     pirates wore dear teeth    -     enamel white, with tusks to rout an elephant     (the result from eating carrot sticks, I was told)      -    not a solitary doubt clutched my mind     ivory mingled naturally with black cord and sash     in the brain's Bluebearded eye.     Then, it was so matter of fact     like taking sausage to bed,     saying a proper good night     for the wisdom of the mother-provider     was similar to a pirate chief.     The let-down came in advanced picture book form,     childhood crisis accelerated on seeing     Kidd brain a member of his lusty crew     but the upstart taking the beating     was toothless and sore     no arcanely romantic rake at all,     more like a strange woman in the park     with whom no one dared to speak.

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