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from the ABC set Boys, Girls and Alcohol and Random Things (Poetry)

We sit
Drinking cheap pints
Various Louises on the wall
By an open fire
You a boy
Me a girl

Your hair was big
And mine was long
We spoke and spoke and spoke
Years later we realised what was wrong

You once said to me
On an escalator
Would anyone notice if we kissed
I panicked. I blinked

We didn't kiss
I was all joviality
All loud
All rowdy

You don't remember
You'll say it wasn't you
But at the moment I wanted to
And at that moment it was true.

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