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JUANITA SPOKE SPANISH
Those eyes said to me
I don’t know where to begin
Vision clouded by destiny
A verse forever left unsung
Plays in my soul
Yet the song goes on
Her tree is Anglo-Saxon
Juanita was named for her
Mother’s ex-husband’s former girlfriend
Those eyes did not understand
what the mouth began
As if with a foreign tongue
I failed to understand
Then she whispered Adios