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BY PETER SOLIS NERY
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
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I don’t love you,
But I can’t forget you;
You bit me
When we were kids. (#1)
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Grade Five —
What do you know
About kissing?
You bit my tongue. (#2)
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Boy Scout camp —
I thought you were
My buddy; then,
You bit me. (#3)
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Forty years later —
At our grade school reunion,
You recalled to me
Our biting history. (#4)
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Forty years later —
You tell the biting story
A little differently. (#5)
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Boys will be boys,
Girls will be girls;
Some of them just grow
A little differently. (#6)
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I’m not scared of kissing;
I’m just afraid of being
Bitten. (#7)
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Bitten —
Because you bit me,
I kind of like kissing
With a bite. (#8)
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Forty years later,
I see you are married —
Do you also bite
Her tongue? (#9)
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You, a married man now;
Your wife — does she
Also bite you? (#10)
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Did you like it
When I bit you back
When we were kids? (#11)
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Grade Five —
And the game we played
Was called kissing. (#12)
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Grade One —
Were we really innocent
When we first kissed? (#13)
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Grade One —
When you kissed me,
I felt like you were
A frog. (#14)
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Grade Five —
When you kissed me,
I was sure you weren’t
A prince. (#15)
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Kissing —
I always think of you
As the Frog Prince. (#16)
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Frog kiss —
My lips always so eager
To leap to your lips. (#17)
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Grade Five —
You stole my innocence,
I bit off your tongue. (#18)
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Brave first grader —
You bit my tongue
In a clumsy kiss;
I did not cry. (#19)
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After you, my lips
Just leap like a frog
To kiss another. (#20)
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Of course, you made
An impression —
You bit my lips! (#21)
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These lips are bitten;
But they were once
Innocent. (#22)
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