The original 1984 manuscript did not have this separation as it appears here in the podcast version from the updated text written in November 2020. There is a significant psychic prediction in this part. It is curious that the pirate is a "masked marauder" who must "remove his mask to eat." Everyone everywhere in the United States needed to remove their masks to eat during the pandemic. Stanley Fish may not be alive any longer, but he was a well-known literary scholar who theorized about the meaning of poetry being what the reader thinks it to mean, and not what the poet intended. This concept was known as "Reader Response Theory." Poetry becomes the art of the reader and not the poet. He was wrong, and it has been the author's intent to prove it in this segment of the poem.

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