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Debris

Debris 
There was a time when I was a seaman travelled with 
a cardboard suitcase and my best shoes wrapped in newspaper.
  I always wore khaki mainly because people would think I was 
an American, back then I thought it a great country; still great but 
 But her leaders look like nine to five clerks.
I have read many books but mostly cheep pot boilers. 
Due to my shyness spent most time in my cabin and left my ship 
when there was no more to read. I did developed a fondness for 
Hemingway he never overwrote is books. 
But for me reading had its hidden hazard as I tended to become 
the person I read about.
I once read a report about me it said I was grumpy drank too much
 - I must have been reading Hemingway at the time and had no social 
skills and never mixed with others. I was a lousy seaman and only 
enjoyed going ashore places I had read about and had an historical 
meaning I could connect with. Well all this is in the past I was not to 
know I was ill and introversion is a burden.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014




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