Escape

I was a teenager
Neurotic
Erotic -
A wild creature! -
Lacking any guidance of a caring adult

Each day I rose at
Dawn
And left my squalid hateful home
Riding a tattered bicycle through sordid muddy narrow winding streets of sweet
Saigon

To my favorite swimming
Pool

The dressing room was like
Heaven!
Naked pink fat wealthy-looking middle-aged
Gods
Meandering, wandering, loitering
Displaying their mysterious masculine charms
Unabashedly

I loved to hang around
Coyly admiring their divine
Assets
Curiously noting the wide variety in
Shapes, sizes, colors...

The afternoon I spent in class
Abstractedly looking out of the French windows
Or gazing at my teachers'
Flies

Completely lost in
Reverie.

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