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discovered
something fine.
Some students
moved in
next door and
they were cool
always giving
things
a chemistry set
a chess board
the greatest books on earth:
Dante
Leo
and Lawrence.
I was forbidden
to bother them
but like everyone
at thirteen
I ignored "the rules".
They
seemed to like me
to feed their cats
and dogs
and I got to just
hang out
whenever I liked
and even watered
their tree of Christmas
growing
in that living room of light
.
One morning
before school
I fed the animals
waited on the bus
at their house
in their house
listening to a music
which was unlike anything
than I had ever heard
.
Bill's girl woke
she spoke softly
and
I watched her head
roll, up-
and down
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and as she saw me
and smiled
and never tried to hide
and she mounted him
riding
in these
beautiful rhythmic tones
these moans
of
motion
her hair
rising and falling
surrounding
those breasts
as the sun entered
and all I could do
was watch
sit there
and be
until
she finished.
She came
many times
to this abode
always
smiling at me
never saying a word
to the blushing
of my reserve.
And one day
going over
I found
Bill and them
had moved
in the middle of the night
the house had a strange emptiness
something beautiful had gone
it up and died
leaving me behind
to rot
in a pitiful existence
in false theory
of the past.
…once again
I was the saddest guy around.
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