One pirate's final story

It must have had its moments. Think of the stories, the children, the smiles.

Perhaps the person who put this pirate creature into the dumpster by the community center's preschool felt a twinge of remorse.

Why else would it be propped in full-regret, like it doesn't quite understand, shouldn't it be in the big basket near the picture book corner?

Or is it that, now resigned to walking this plank, its eyes are cast on the rest of us: Don't we see what's happening, it seems to ask, will we do nothing?