Near North Side: Chicago

Contributor: Donal Mahoney

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Where will the lovely lady go
on her diurnal walk?
One child in 30 years she bore,
now they do not talk.
Supple, firm, her lithe legs are,
young men wheel and gawk.
A husband left her money, though,
a poodle, too, to walk.


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Donal Mahoney lives in St. Louis, Missouri.