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A QUOI BON DIRE by CHARLOTTE MEW

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First Line: SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO YOU SAID
Last Line: YOU WILL HAVE SMILED, I SHALL HAVE TOSSED YOUR HAIR.
Subject(s): GAYS & LESBIANS; HOMOEROTICISM; LESBIANS; GAY WOMEN; GAY MEN;
Seventeen years ago you said
Something that sounded like Good-bye;

And everybody thinks that you are dead,
But I.

So I, as I grow stiff and cold

To this and that say Good-bye too;
And everybody sees that I am old

But you.

And one fine morning in a sunny lane

Some boy and girl will meet and kiss and swear
That nobody can love their way again

While over there

You will have smiled, I shall have tossed your hair.




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