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At the end of her life, heady green is more myth than woman.

Rising before the sun, she dawns a uniform of over-worn black, Victorian-era garb that

by now is about three decades out of date, but she pays no mind.

As she boards the first fairy into the city, she always hopes that she will not be seen,

that she will blend into obscurity.

That morning, at least, no one seems to know her name.

It's comfort.

Heady's lived and worked over turbulent decades.

Much of that in the public eye, which first looked at her with promise, then regarded

her as a curiosity, and now has turned its searing eye on her with scorn.

These days, this is the silhouette they cut for her when they deride her in the papers.

Heady, the witch of Wall Street, depicted as crooked with greed, darkening the doorways

of lauded cathedrals to capital, a miser outdoing all other miser's cheap beyond cheap,

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