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It was one of those places
which,
We were told with stern faces
and tones
And the occasional smack to the
butt,
That we were not to go,
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You would not,
as a rule, find her ilk in these parts;
Indeed, frat
boys from the state school from a few blocks off,
Failing to heed
the..
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He was holding court between
sets at the Texas Bar
(Not his usual stomping
grounds, necessarily,
But the owner was a decent guy
whose che..
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It had been, indeed almost
constantly so,
Spotted and dotted with the odd
bit of graffiti:
Hastily spray-painted citing of
some school&rs..
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They are ornamented with coins, small colored stones,The occasional personal items-- wrinkled and ancient baseball cards,Weathered photos of aunts or ..
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He’d
never read him, understand, or at least not that he’d remembered;
He
might have half-skimmed something in Look
or Esquire,
..
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Our
wandering and searching has led us here again,
As
April sloughs off winter and takes us by the hand.
(We
have had as tutors fishes, b..
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She noted, grimly
cognizant of though unamused by the irony,
That her likeness, or
something akin to that,
Appeared on the
poster--a gray..
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They sit in the humblest of
frames,
Faux wood-grained plastic
grotesqueries
Purchased long ago from some
doomed Grants or Bradlees,
Th..
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There’s no love that’s forever true,
No guarantee he’ll stand by you.
Heed well, then, what I have to say;
You keep tha..
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