Monday, November 4, 2013

May 31, 1911

No white dress but today she’s
  coming out.
Thousands spellbound, not knowing inside
  she was incomplete and -  excepting
  a few days  – would
  always be empty, always
  alone. Still,
today she would launch,
  unfitted but beautiful.  She’d never go back --
  the applause and champagne and music would
  follow until death yawned and
  swallowed. 
But today no prescience – joy and
  admiration and expectation
  hang in Irish air.

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