Saw an old guy at a bus stop with a beat-to-hell shirt that quite obviously still made him proud. Wrote this for him.
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GUAYABERA
It was his pride and joy, his parent, his child, his wife and ex-wife both, his one and only, the linen dyed a light ruby, the buttons on the pockets and cuffs made from mother-of-pearl that was probably abalone but that he said…
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