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innocence & experience

Patrick Fealey

he fucked his daughter
he fucked my girlfriend
there was a time when i didn’t know how evil
the world was and there is a piece
of that kid in this poem
and a couple of dead kids, in this poem

elizabeth and i shared a table in 4^th grade
me and elizabeth nightengale and another kid
her penmanship was
so beautiful i looked at it every day
and she sat upright
while the other kids talked
about her

elizabeth nightingale had short blonde hair
she made me nervous and happy
every day
the most beautiful girl
i had ever seen
talking, the two of us talking

i began to ride my bike across the highway
to elizabeth’s house
after school

we walked and talked
between bursts of energy
i was always catching up to her
mind and she ran
faster than me

we climbed a tree
and straddled a great branch
face to face
and she said:
“do you want to hug?”

the leaves hid us
she was warm and solid
in her denim coveralls
and i felt her body
my first experience with a woman

in 5^th grade
they put elizabeth in one class
they put me in another
they separated us
there was only one smart class
in that elementary school
and they knew damn well
she was brilliant

i saw her now and again
in class with the average kids
i noticed her body
she was different
she had grown up
and had little interest in school
she didn’t talk, aloof and closed
and i saw kids give her space

in 6^th grade, elizabeth did not show up

her family had left town
elizabeth was pregnant
the father was her father or
her stepfather was the father

someone mentioned a southern state

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