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79 Breadfruit Thoughts “When you come again,” Joan said, “bring a breadfruit.” But I brought instead these breadfruit thoughts. When he delivered the bounty, did the masses hail him as hero? That hardcase sea captain who elected to water breadfruit seedlings rather than give his crew fresh water to drink? Tough it out Bly, through foul weather and Christian mutiny. Did they say, God bless you Breadfruit Bly, for sake a you, yellow-heart thrives, it’s flesh fired, assumes texture of bread buttered? Did Jamaicans beat goat-skin for phenomenon of starch-of-life on branches? Was breadfruit scorned, thought to be slop for hogs, till hungry bite like yaws and caused Jamaicans to consume breadfruit roast and boil? For bread brought, did Bly receive inside-out roast breadfruit heart? Just a few breadfruit thoughts. ...

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