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Playing With Matches

Playing With Matches

   We wired kids drank coffee
   in Kroger's and stoled fire
   and cigarettes. We were free.
   Hoses doused a funeral pyre.
   We kissed girls felt fears
   something like young desire,
   warmth we'd chase for years.

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