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by Alistair Halifax

Sixteen-going-on-Seventeen.

The age of non-
consent and nonchalance,

Of which a society is formed
upon the laws
of hips and pubic hair,

Where clothes hang out to dry
on tanlines, sloping
invitations,

An Underground under the influence of street
lamps in the ubiquitous Summer Evening,

Between the jagged spikes in our parent-
al grip and the ungraspable
glaciers of our pending freedom, melting
like pill-
form pounds, as we crawl toward the edge
of our twelve-year sentence,

Immediately drafted into The War on Terrible
Good-byes, with battle wounds
of bleeding hearts
and inner thighs, divorced
by painful expectancy and irreversible
differences,

Where our feelings
blossom
and our problems bud,

With history
on repeat, blaring
from our
recordscasettesCDsiPods,
won dering, What's
the next new thing
?

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