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i didn’t want to “do it”

Linds M. Crate

i wish the video games
would’ve worked
so you could’ve
looked at something other
than me
i remember you showed me
the yearbook with
my picture in it and insisted
i had a pretty smile
when i was in second grade
before i transferred
schools,
and i remember thinking that a bit
strange as i was in sixth
grade and you in
seventh;
yet i still said thank you
because that’s what i was taught you
said after someone gave you a compliment—
when you said things about “doing it”
i just laughed it off
thinking you were joking,
but i think you heard the tension in my
laugh and i think it made you grin;
because i remember you forcing me to kiss you
not once but three times and then later
after the ice cream
trying to force me to “do it” as you had said.

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