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there was my Riviera love peering at me over dark sunglasses.
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It was the same child, the same frail, honey-hued shoulders,
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the same silky, supple bare back,
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the same chestnut head of hair.
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A polka-dotted black kerchief tied around her chest
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hid from my aging ape eyes but not from
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the gaze of young memory the juvenile breasts
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i had fondled one immortal day and,
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as if I were the fairy tale nurse of
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some little princess lost, kidnapped, discovered in gypsy rags
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through which her nakedness smiled at the king and his hounds,
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I recognized the tiny, dark-brown mole on her side.