Thursday, January 28, 2010

FOURTEEN

I wanted to be taken in by something
so I took a saxophone
and chased clarinets around the field.
I put on short red shorts
and ran ten miles up and down hills.
I could sit for hours at the kitchen table
and sing along to the radio
absorbed in a geometry book
while my sister's friends giggled up the stairs.
I didn't know yet how to kiss or cook.

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