@ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; The Adolescent Boy Across The Street ("Shucks!, He Already Has A BoyFriend!") [XLIX]

Beneath his baggy, bell-bottom jeans' tattered

cuffs, his tie-dyed socks accumulated a

fair amount of grass-stain:  the whole afternoon

spent at lawn croquet, and his long-haired beauty---

shoeless and shirtless.



J-9thxciv

Author's Notes/Comments: 

An actual memory from the early seventies' summers.  The young man who inspired the poem was incredibly and exquisitely beautiful, with a militant dislike of shoes and, to a lesser extent, shirts.

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