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By Jack Joseph Smith
Mexicam Train Robber
All for the sake of it
I never said
I did not love women and children
I only left to learn
That is all
By Jack Joseph Smith
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This page gives the speaker a terse outlaw voice, insisting that departure was not lovelessness but a form of learning.
The title, `Mexicam Train Robber`, sets up melodrama, but the poem itself is restrained. That restraint matters: it frames leaving as necessity and education rather than pure betrayal or performance.