Challenge
Ciao
Ciao, Darlings
The women
out of place
in a black dress with a neck line too low
revealing a décolletage
crumpled like a rejected manuscript
her greeting
her way of leaving the impression
she had recently summered in Venice.
Those people
whispering as she passed
because they found her
incredibly
seductive
influential
or both
as she believed
her mind not being what it used to.
She was neither.
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