beneath pirate flags (ashcan)

Dear Mama, I write to you with news, timely for me and yet without urgency for your part. I do not know If or When my former epistles have reached you, or in what Status, but I must presume for the sake of time that they have and that you are well-acquainted with the saga of my Mistreatment, of the Tyranny we — that is, the crew of the Mermaid Hunter — have sufered at the hands of our Captai…