Eliza lived here
thirty years ago
she was eighteen
movie star beautiful
born in Spain
high red shoes
men in limousines would
come for her
men with Rolex watches
Eliza stopped me on the street
almost fifty now
thirty years have gone by
for us both we’d never
talked much
but she wanted
us to tell our thirty years
so we sat in a coffee shop
as though we were old friends
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