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I once saw a whale with a gold tooth
He rose right out the sea
and opened his mouth in the morning sun
and showed that tooth to me

Once I was fishing the deep ground
with nigh six pounds of lead
and I caught a cod as big as a man
and he had a man's head

There aint no end to what I'd tell
once I was well begun
like seein the devil rise from the sea
instead of the risin sun

or sea snakes lashin the moonlit sea
with their terrible lollopins
or the little mermaids with their diamond eyes
and solid silver fins

For some have eyes to see strange sights
and such a one I be
but I aint known as an honest man
and nobody harks to me

-my memory of Ruth Moore's poem

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