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DISCOVERY [ EXCERPT ]

DISCOVERY [ EXCERPT ]

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Patrolling the street

On the Brooklyn beat

Wasn't enough for

Jerry Tibbs.

 

The married N.Y.P.D. officer

On some days would shed 

His dark blue uniform & wore

The sable one he was

Born with.

Just a man enjoying his spare time,

His busy hands worked a camera.

 

On Coney Island's 

White sandy beach,

He found...

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