i saw......what you wanted me to
i am.............whatever

i could be like you
(............do you want me
to understand?.................)

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yes and why the pain, frankie
why oh why
frankie boy!

what of poems and the muse?
what of honor what of truth?

i saw......what you wanted me to
i am.............whatever

i could be like you
do you want me
to understand?

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in the kindergarten
in the early nakedness
in the first caress
in the wisdom does not die

before we ever thought  to try
before we thought that we might ever
cry out in the sorrow

of doom

before this very afternoon
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yes and why the pain, frankie
why oh why
frankie boy!

what of poems and the muse?
what of honor what of truth?


//

??