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OK.

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So when I was down
there, I met my boyfriend

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and we are long distance.

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We're trying to
figure that one out.

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So this poem is called
Boyfriend Pantoum.

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And it is another formal poem.

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And so you'll hear the
repetition of lines.

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I think it's Malaysian,
but I could be wrong.

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I always confuse it.

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So you'll hear the rhythm
of the first and third lines

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repeating in the second fourth
lines of the next stanza.

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Boyfriend Pantoum.

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Hallmark does not
make a card for this,

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for what we mean to
each other, for what we

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do when my kids are asleep.

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We are not married,
not husband and wife.

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What do we mean to each other?

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More than lovers,
more than friends.

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But we are not married,
not husband and wife.

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One card says, you know what I
love about you or to my partner,

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to my friend, with
the inside left blank.

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My boyfriend asked, what
do you know about me,

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as he brings me
water at 3:00 AM.

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With the inside left blank,
I write to, the man I spend

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my nights with, who brings me
a glass of water at 3:00 AM,

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whose body was made
to fit inside my body,

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there is no one else I'd
rather spend my nights with.

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Who are when my kids are asleep?

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His beautiful body
fits inside my body.

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Hallmark doesn't
make a card for this.

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Some poems are
just fun to write.

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