Hardly Legal

my aunt lived in an apartment with a sickly tree next to it
crowded between two other lots in the middle of the city
there were men around and I got to meet my cousins
she was younger than me and he was older and I related
she wanted to show me something
we went upstairs and hid under the bed
where there was a hardly legal magazine 
She knew about because someone had shown her

later mom told me about how much she hated her sister
but I already knew why
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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March 31, 2019 at 8:35 AM
oh, evocative write! Excellent.
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