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Retirement

Time softly slips by
Then one day - irrelevant
Move aside old gal

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Swedish Baby

They called you the Swedish baby,

With your white blonde hair

And bright blue eyes.

A Surrey Scandinavian.

But your skin tone was more southerly,

As if you’d spent your first two weeks of life

Sunning yourself on the Côte d'Azur.

A pleasant surprise, given your pasty parentage

The eyes and hair remain, twenty years later

But alas the sun-kissed look was short lived

Ja...

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