she looked like Betty Grable

I make sure she takes her pills
I fill the box on the kitchen table
I put the meds in plastic boxes
arranged in day and time
I've heard that many quick years ago
she looked like Betty Grable 
in her salad days in Hollywood
before she had hit her prime

she tells me all her stories
about when she'd turn the soldiers' faces
with long legs in black high heels
down in San Diego Bay