Pic: I’m the swim suit sweetie on the left.

I never noticed your sandals, real sandals,

your toes peeping out at the front,

until I looked at the photo over fifty years later;

I’d been too consumed with envy

For your large floppy sunhat at the time.

I had sandshoes to wear at the beach,

Not sandals.

Sandals and sunhat,

A real beach beauty queen.