Puppet

Crafted bone

The twitch and clack

As the organ plays I twist in the wind

An acrobat

The crude painted body with paper hat

My brass wire joints my grey wood limbs

Washed dry by fathomless seas I go

Tarantara tarantara

I kick the curtain

And the cardboard ship

Jerks bravely on the painted wooden sea

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