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Jul 2014
"how does it feel to be an adult?" someone asked me.
I said, "it feels like I didn't sleep for days"
           ..I mean..
              ...child is what I wish to be...
                                                           ­       ...what I wish stay.
how I miss the way I misbehaved like wild animal.
how I was really ignorant and irrational.
Most of all,
I was optimistic and positive,
carefree on how life was to be lived,

clueless about what aids did,
happy with a Chico-stick,
instead of being worried about where I was putting it.

someone asked me, "how do you know you are a man?"
I said, "well ma'am, excuse me while i look in my pants, ill show you an example"
I will become one, when I want to Raise one.
Miguel A Barriento
Written by
Miguel A Barriento  elizabeth, new jersey
(elizabeth, new jersey)   
365
   --- and Joseph Schneider
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