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The Lives Of Lillian Lucero

Lilli – exotic diva sometimes seen in summer swimming in smooth salt seas— flawlessly nude or walking along white-sand beaches while the sun explores her honey-colored skin and causes the pure platinum sheen of angel hair to tumble about her shoulders and swing seductively at her waist an accident of nature gave her three rows of lush smoke-gray eyelashes to frame deep-violet eyes that will flash glints of silver when the light is right stunning in stature (regal really) her exquisite figure has never broken a sweat nor troubled itself on a treadmill she eats whatever she wants whenever she wants and rewards her own benevolent thoughts with chocolate delicacies and mounds of whipped cream this secret of goddesses of every age makes her skin glow like satin entertaining moonlight her homes follow the sun a tasteful houseboat is moored off the Miami shore to ease the burden of winter a secluded ranchette in Montana affords cool, pine-scented air, aesthetic glacier peaks and huckleberries in season (of course in a perfect world huckleberries would be in season all year long) then on to her cozy Cape Cod cottage situated next door to the fascinating Jessica Fletcher to finish out the fall * inevitably morning comes and Lillian Agnes Lucero toggles briefly between last night’s dream (which she can’t recall except to know it was good) and the day at hand arthritic joints resist movement a nagging cough accompanies her to the  bathroom she finds scruffy slippers that some pup, long ago, chewed on his journey to becoming a valued pet gray, thinning hair is released from its prison of rollers and she puts on an old muumuu with fading Hawaiian flowers a stained mug is filled with fresh coffee and she pads to her east-facing patio to enjoy a cigarette before the sun gets too hot ah… the first sip and the first drag— always the best of the day Lillian Lucero takes a deep wheezy breath life is good

Copyright © May 2002 Marcia McCaslin


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