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Flared face, he charges at the finish All ‘Bristow’ vest, braces, skittlegs Tufts of hat-black hair everywhere
And the donkeys bulging thick with fur cakes Gallops past me and Stephanie
sat watching at the derby in the rec
by the river.
Eyebrows, hat-black tufts like him Cut too short for a girl
Her daddy is the fastest ever Stephanie that loves me
She tells me she is a boy sat watching
at the derby in the rec by the river.
Fast like her daddy so she had to be I knew So I couldn’t love her back she was a Strong kisser all the same and loud
Like a boy
So I gave her a bird book instead sat watching
at the derby in the rec by the river.
Clever too her daddy like her I did Her sums like him were like a boy’s But she wore a dress with birds Like a girl
So I let her hold my hand sat watching
at the derby in the rec by the river.
She loved me She said so She told people
She did kiss me She sat with me Watching
and in the river at the rec
after the derby
we paddled like boys.
November 13, 2014