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At five, girls wish for new dresses

pony tails, and patent leather shoes.

By ten, taste evolves to books, music,

and pictures of places around

the world, especially waterfalls.

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Childhood begins to stop 

beneath big city neon nights

but success means deterring

the woman-girl running too fast.

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Teen years mean infatuations

with anything in pants as if

discovery was as numerous as

butterflies. God becomes real,

death, a fascination. Black

is the only pallette for bedroom

walls.

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Owning more intelligence

than most of those with prosperous

parents, class distinction becomes

a wonder, and maturity teaches

the need to wish for something else.

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Lady A

07-19-13

6:17p

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