At Seventeen

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I learned the truth at seventeen
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      That love was meant for 
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beauty queens
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and high school girls with clear
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 skinned smiles who married young
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  and then retired

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The valentines  I never knew, the
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 friday nights, charades of youth
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were spent on one more beautiful
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   At seventeen I  learned the truth

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And those of us with ravaged faces,
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 lacking in the social graces
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Desp'rat'ly remained at home, 
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inventing lovers on the phone
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Who called and say "come dance 
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with me" and murmured vague 
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obscenities
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It isn't all it seems at seventeen

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A brown eyed girl in 
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hand-me-downs, whose name I 
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never   could pronounce said
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"Pity, please, the ones who 
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serve, they only get what they 
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deserve

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The rich relationed home-town 
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queen, marries into what she needs
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A guarantee of company and  
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haven for the elderly"

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Remember those who win the game, 
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lose the love they sought to gain
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In debentures of quality and 
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dubious integrity
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Their small town eyes will gape at
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 you in dull surprise when payment 
due
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exceeds accounts received at 
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seventeen

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To those of us who know the 
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pain of valentines    that never 
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came
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and those whose name were never 
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called when choosing side at 
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basketball

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It was long ago and far away, the
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 world was younger than today
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and dreams were all they gave 
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for free to ugly duckling girls 
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like me

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We all play the game and when we 
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dare to cheat ourselves at solitaire
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Inventing lovers on the phone, 
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repenting other lives unknown
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that call and say "Come dance with
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 me", and murmur vague obscenities
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at ugly girls like me, at seventeen