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Skeeter with Castanets On
See her as she was originally envisioned
Conceived on a vast if not Amazonian scale
With commensurate appetites and capacities
all abuzz
See her the child of scrunchdown by Jolly Dame Nature
Abridged and condensed into the compacter vision
For which the world could get high on an Eskimo Pie
for awhile
Skeeter a second Semiramis at five feet "two"
Featuring a full range of Joplinesque expressions
Brassy puckish switched-on grins and bacchanalian
cacklelaughter
Cigarette a-dangle as she chaindrank margaritas
Snorting so loud in one legendary midswallow
That an errant limeslice came up nearly through her
nose
buttoncute
Clacking the nights away in her everloving blue
Eyed flash-in-the-pants hurry to outseguidilla
Carmen intensely enhancing her own brevity
all the while
Insistent to the last that she'd dance rings around us
At ninety-four and even if you got deepseated
In an Ionescan sense why you could be happy
as a loon
But those she left stagnantly debriefed however hard
Bitten must now concentrate on closing the window
Realizing that things last forever only in
retrospect.
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