my uncle | 1 |
and his firefighter friends | 2 |
anchored their boats | 3 |
in a semi-circle. | 4 |
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my cousins and i | 5 |
and the other teenage boys | 6 |
openly drank beer from the coolers | 7 |
and watched a clutch of girls | 8 |
sunning themselves | 9 |
on shore. | 10 |
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a big one with bug eyes | 11 |
swam out to us, | 12 |
my friend | 13 |
thinks your cute, | 14 |
she said to me. | 15 |
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a brunette | 16 |
in a yellow two-piece | 17 |
waved to me | 18 |
from shore. | 19 |
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we grabbed more beer | 20 |
and swam in. | 21 |
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dana's family | 22 |
lived in an rv | 23 |
at the campground. | 24 |
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she said i had eyes | 25 |
like the people | 26 |
on soap operas. | 27 |
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she took my hand, | 28 |
we swam out | 29 |
behind one of the boats. | 30 |
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the water | 31 |
was waist deep. | 32 |
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she slid her bikini off, | 33 |
then my trunks. | 34 |
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she put her hands | 35 |
above her head | 36 |
palms down | 37 |
on the outboard motor. | 38 |
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i ran my fingers | 39 |
over her back | 40 |
being careful | 41 |
to avoid | 42 |
the cigarette | 43 |
burns. | 44 |
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some of them | 45 |
were fresh. | 46 |
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she turned around, | 47 |
fear in her eyes. | 48 |
does that make me ugly? | 49 |
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the opposite, | 50 |
i said. | 51 |
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we built a bonfire | 52 |
on shore | 53 |
and shared a simple peace | 54 |
until the night | 55 |
turned our page. | 56 |
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