Now I Am Captain Hook
I used to play both Peter Pan and Captain Hook
When I was a child, being dramatic and loud.
My prissy sister had to be Tinkerbelle and Wendy.
This made the swashbuckling scenes more difficult.
As Peter Pan I would do a bit of sword play from the porch railing.
Jump down, switch capes,
yell “Now I’m Captain Hook” and jump back up.
The neighborhood children loved the silliness of it.
I was out of breath by the time the play was over.
My sister Wendy/Tinkerbelle was not sweaty or out of breathe.
We are identical twins, but not in the ways that count I guess.
I thought I was daring and brave. The porch railing was ten feet high.
Years later I discovered I was wrong; it was not even three feet.
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