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This is the funniest poem
I think I ever wrote.

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It's really weird.

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It's called "The Color Thief."

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I enter your room with my purple
face, moist from excitement.

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The black straw basket I
carry in my yellow arms cracks

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softly, in tune with the
brittle snap of my blue legs

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as I sneak to your bed.

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Little girl, have you got
a pink buttock to lend?

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Or a cream-colored
navel that darkens

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to brown as it spirals inward?

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Or breasts?

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Yes.

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They are swelling now
for the first time.

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I touch them.

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I take the nipples in my hands.

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They are hard and almost
as magenta as plums.

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I drop them into my
basket and leave quickly.

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The light bulbs I've stuck
in the tips of your breasts

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shine far into your middle age.

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The clearest white
I've ever seen.

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