Fifty

Poem

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Now I understand why
She would wear romantic dresses
Draping soft and shapeless
On her changing form.

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I see why she cried
When I revealed my darkness
Why she held me to her heart
At parting

But I cannot fathom
Why she asked to take me
Dildo shopping.
Therapists are strange.