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You have that throwback beauty
that makes me want to be your Humphrey Bogart,
your good wolf and the guardian of your river's heart,
and the autumnal apocalypse is shivering and falling
all around me, it brings my tropical soul
in color to the fore without a temperature to match it,
the tilt of your mouth to the gleam of your gaze
broadcasting over valleys and hills through black & white
the heat of your being, you have that throwback beauty
that makes me want to walk into an old diner to be awed by
you inhabit classic skin.