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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.

An outlaw's plain defense spoken under the title 'Mexicam Train Robber'. The bandit insists his crimes were 'All for the sake of it' yet protests 'I never said / I did not love women and children', recasting his departure as study: 'I only left to learn / That is all'. The terseness keeps the romance of banditry in check and turns the confession into a quiet plea for understanding.