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Miss Lena Raven, 1009 North Fair Oaks Avenue, Pasadena, California

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"Hello Lynx," the 1928 post card starts,
(It’s the Victoria Bridge in Montreal.)

I’m here for a while.

Nice, lovely town.

Plenty of booze

and French girls.

Will answer your

letter soon.

Best regards,

Lenny.
He’s Drunk.
His penmanship is worse
than Dr. Perrini’s
who pined for Lena
while abroad in Rome.
(A vista of the Temple of Neptune.)

Wait for me,

will return soon.
Later from Venice (The Bridge of Sighs):

Lena, I’m coming home soon.
Not quite sure of her address,
he wrote "1009?"
Lena studied her post cards
like a Gypsy at Tarot.

Some she balled up for the cats.

Some she vowed to clutch in the grave.

She imagined others

in the hands of curious strangers

and she heard her name move their lips.

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