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From a Gentleman Who Always Carries Extra Plastic Bags In His Pocket

Should I write a poem of sappy love/

Teenage emotion gone on a sneak-away ride/

Visigoth hormones usurping my pen, again/

Sad memories of those girls, oh, those girls/

High School dances like small caliber holes in my heart/

No exit wounds, the lipstick bullets fester in me/

Music so loud I can not hear her giggle to her coven/

About the way I tried to kiss her/

In the gym, in public/

Where all the Cool boys might see?

Or Should I, forty years later, just walk my dog/

And whistle as I bag up her ****

Enjoying the evening as we walk/

While she wags and is happy to be here/

Beside me, regardless of my haircut/

Or the horsepower of my car?/

Why start now? I never cared then/

About them, the Loud Pretty ones/

With the guns aimed at my heart/

The only thing they knew how to do was shoot and run/

Where's the fun in that?/

Come on back, ladies.../

I have years of dog-poop waiting for you.

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Sep 24, 2013
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