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      1918
      
      a family of gypsies
      comes into the store
      my mother and peg
      are playing in the
      back of the place
      in a house of shoe
      boxes my grand
      father dark as a
      gypsy and as sly
      is naturally quite
      suspicious tells
      the clerks to button
      their eyes my mother
      is dreaming of fires
      and tambourines
      red skirts swirling
      the old woman looks
      at a shoe 4 people
      are watching my grand
      mother comes from
      behind the handbags
      and corsets the
      old gypsy shrugs no
      everyone breathes
      easy as they go but
      she comes back in
      15 minutes with the
      shoes like a cat
      with a rabbit and
      she says you were
      all watching me so
      I had to prove I
      could now they're
      yours