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Beautiful, l3-yr-old Cressida is dead.

Fritz Hamilton

Beautiful, l3-yr-old Cressida is dead.
Star of her soccer team, with many girl & boyfriends,
She’s taken by a strange disease & dies.

Already accepted by Yale, her father’s alma mater, an
athletic scholarship a sure thing,
beautiful, l3-yr-old Cressida is dead.

Seduced by her lst boyfriend, a high school senior,
& then available to many young lotharios,
she’s taken by a strange disease & dies.

First noticed when she has no stamina on the field,
the doctors examine her finding nothing,
beautiful, 13-yr-old Cressida is dead.

The older boys continue to date her & use her.
She leaves her soccer team & hates herself.
She’s taken by a strange disease & dies.

She drops out of school & watches TV all day.
Her friends stop coming to see her/ she doesn’t care.
Beautiful, 13-yr-old Cressida is dead.

She has every test/ she weakens & stays in the hospital.
She gets lethargic & hopeless/ she just doesn’t care.
She’s taken by a strange disease & dies.
Beautiful, 13-yr-old Cressida is dead ...

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