Poem 9: Rotten Advice

"When I was a boy," my father said,

"they called girls like you sex apples...

                    I was 14...

...those girls with that kind of appeal."

                    and doing my homework.

"Watch out," he said.

                    I never really understood Algebra.

                    English was my best subject.

"You'll have to be careful."

                    Now I watch

                    and I'm careful,

                    but I still want

                    to understand the square root

                    of prepositions.


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