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Cherry

By ged_backland

Wed, 15 Sep 2004
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That Summer

I don't like nature
said the kid
who'd only ever seen a plastic pony
it's boring boring boring
I will hold close two things of that summer forever
the colours that danced the backs of fresh mackeral
and the look on her scruffy face
when she first saw the sea

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