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     It's all about being fifteen, when you're caught
     staring from your seat in math class at the senior
     outside.  He's bumming a cigarette

     in the rain, and you know as his head tips back,
     his eyes half-closed as the smoke curls through his lips
     and surges through his nose, you know
     for the first time

     if he can suck so strongly
     on that cigarette, just what he could pull
     from you.


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