We sit side-by-side on the bleachers on our street<\/p>\n
It’s been a long school term so we fill each other in<\/p>\n
I tell you about the boy I like<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
“Our first kiss was like magic<\/p>\n
It wasn’t quick or like the marriage of lips by amateurs<\/p>\n
It was heaven and sugar and bliss<\/p>\n
I chuckled after in high clouds<\/p>\n
but a teacher saw us the whole time”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I tell you how my mother beat me blue-black<\/p>\n
I raise my skirt to show you the proof of my stupidity brandished on my thigh<\/p>\n
you guffaw and quake to the ground<\/p>\n
I cannot help it, I cackle along<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
My story takes a back seat to yours<\/p>\n
you failed math again so you would be back to my public school<\/p>\n
with a loud roar I collapse beside you<\/p>\n
we are going to make a bad pair at school<\/p>\n
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