It all started late summer in 2003. I was unhappy with my situation on the east coast, and I took a trip by myself to Plimoth to spend some time near the ocean and think. Later that evening, as the fishing boats came into the bay to transfer their catch onto trucks, I noticed a strange vessel. As it came nearer, I walked out onto the breaker to get a closer look. I could see the captain on the deck, and he yelled down to me in a raspy voice. “Ahoy there yee scalawag!” That was what he always called me. “What say you to a little adventure on the high seas?” Well I hadn’t really ever thought about it, but this could possibly open up a new way of life for me, so I said, “sure!” Right then and there, I put my “X” on the manifest, and I became the ship’s poet. It was my job to create witty rhymes about everything we did. Little did I know, that I had signed onto the pirate ship of Bloody Bill Booty, the most notorious pirate of the new millennium! The ship was called, The “Poisonus Eel.” Y...