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Calico Jack

I can smell the sweat and tar of your greasy jacket, red as this colleen’s hair, calico as rough as …

. Contemplative / . Peaceful / Death / Hope / Life / Metrical / Rhyme

Since Death Forgot to Take Me

Since death forgot to take me I’ll wile the earth away, And chase things that forsake me, And smile at …

#adventure #beauty #Bruce Wren #death #life

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