For Juliet

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~

in 1968, we were young lovers too

studying the bard and beguiled by 

your pure beauty and innocence,

our story was captured within 

those perfect words and that

captivating film set in fair Verona,

but we woke today to dreadful news

delivered as usual cold as mutton

from a distant place and another time, 

the tragic news of your second death