She keeps her lies everywhere,
running one neatly between her fingers
coquettish smile at the poker table,
puffing from one on a
cigarette break while burning a hole into the sky,
clutching them all to her bosom and looking back
at the sea, cynical as ever now,
a lonesome stare punctuated by the wrinkles of abandonment,
and walked away, footsteps disappearing slowly off the sand