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Anchors Aweigh Destination Unknown

Anchors Aweigh...Destination Unknown Weather beaten cap'n, and watertight bewitched craft time tested since maiden voyage (circumnavigating the globe back in the day of my youth), I ranked tough as a pitbull, when severely pitted against raw elements of swiftly tailored, harried stylish nature against leathery faced reptilian skin, hard drinking (actually as corked poetic convenience - vermouth arbitrary bottle of choice if for no other reason, than to rhyme with the above line), and tobacco spitting, while colorfully swearing as an uncouth Furies (of Agamemnon) fighting (tooth and nail) Pirate, where rickets, scurvy, and thrice unconscious, currently ample proof could not forsooth bring me to Davy Jones's locker, cuz I never wanna get relegated to an underwater whale schooled booth, this raconteur can nonchalantly, glibly, and blithely attest, with braggadocio, despite no warm welcome will ever greet mine tinnitus pained ears, I can plainly imagine acrimonious retort upon me behest his far more'n lifetime bobbing (like a sponge) buoyed atop crest longing e'en for (carping, caviling, hen pecking, or shrewish) wife, and loving family forsaken, sans living antisocial upon briny deep divest many opportunities to experience wedded, webbed and whirled bliss, and hence for everest as bachelor, especially at present junction of twilight years, my crude manners makes foreign (for an) ill suited guest boot e'en if yours truly became inured to life on land, (as a "FAKE" father figure feathering his nest my coarse behavior, as basic electric koolaid acid test would force even the most tolerant proprietor, perhaps a bank manager at Univest would utter VAMOOSE, e'en if eye covered up my heavily pierced, and tattooed breast.

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