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Girl Love
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19 girl love LuAnne was my best friend In 5th grade, 4th grade, 3rd grade, 1st , When I found out whispering across Mrs. Sisson’s number lines that she had A horse named Joe, and that in her house They ate Dolly MadisonTwinkies And we could stay up all night Planning regiments for the recess wars Against the boys the next day With our butterfly-buckle belts and fists. We carried books like Greek mythology, Invertebrate biology everywhere we went, Yelled out answers in each class so much That when we fell to our knees On the playground, grazing on grass fist by fist The school administrators made a note on a list And next year, she had Mrs. Harkins and I didn’t. They called our parents And said LuAnne and I should be separated, shouldn’t speak Because it wasn’t right for girls to beat up boys Wasn’t right for girls to share quite so much love. I loved LuAnne almost as much as my collie-sheperd dog, The one I found shot, his body Rotting without a head, macramé collar I crocheted him still around his neck. ...