... (XXIV)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV9OcYhk4CU&ab_channel=FrankSinatra-Topic

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The notice on the board read -

Indiscriminately, and yet clear as could be:

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"Lost"

"And yet longing to be found."

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It was as if the words were scrawled with lipstick -

With mascara, and with foundation -

Rather than the dark-ink and bleeding 

Of any old office, fountain pen.

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Near the bottom, 

As though detailed posthumously and

Following the lethality of the letter:

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"If discovered," 

"Please,"

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"Do not return to sender."

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Signed,

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The Woman from the Beach,

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Forever upon your Shore

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