a child in her arms
as palms outstretched,
she danced along the
scalding city streets -
where she belonged.
Here a right jig,
there a light prance,
In with the lights
and out with her alms;
she made a great show
of sheer bravado,
where none could have been !
(not for the urban-elite being ).
Did reverses
rope her in wings ?
despair
douse her flaming fears ?
I wondered some
accelerating,
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as the little debonair
receded into a tiny dot
in my blurred rear-view mind.
In the next change
I decided to CR&Y
Signing the cheque
with my first try
at being less a privileged on-looker
by opting out of
just one
Chinese dinner!
« return.