14 (eleven)
Eleven years later she comes to me
and remembers she said "in ten years."
I remember I said we'd never speak,
but two children since I've nothing to fear.
She tells me she has a story to tell,
about the dream I gave her, which she lived:
there was wealth, a poor girl and art to sell,
and a rich man, an artist and a shiv,
and an engine left running at LAX,
and leaving behind a new way to live.
She wears high leather boots and shakes with sex,
and decides that we'll write it as a script.
Will it be all right, she asks, with my wife?
She knows that it's something her boyfriend won't like.
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