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"The Paperboy."

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At 12, you still had no breasts.

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What you thought then
I can only guess,

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but courting you from my
bicycle in an empty lot

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until the traffic thinned
out, turned on its lights,

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made me late too often.

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Well, the job was a
drag, nickel dime,

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like the romance I imagined.

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I was a fish in love
with your personal eyes.

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I did tricks.

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Who cares about breasts?

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Your mother called you in.

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And I went home with
my hand, like blue fire

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where it touched your chest.

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I dreamed I swam above
rooftops, overturned

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hulls calm in the air.

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I'd forgotten.

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But last night,
there I was again,

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submerged bird, a
reversible fish,

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looking up or down at the
chimneys, your woman's face,

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me calling, do
you have children?

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And you-- help me find them.

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And I seeing the empty
lot, the bicycle,

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do you have any children?

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And you-- give me some
breasts, even little ones.

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And I saying, you
missed your chance,

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there are none left anywhere.

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Then swimming off
through the smoky air,

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leaving the bicycle, the
papers, your face sinking

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into the insistence
of your mother's voice

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and the darkening ground.

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