Revolution

I was too young to have opinions,
only irritations.
She had a revolutionary anger
against everything.

I breathed in her perfume,
her alien attraction.
She taught me what to think,
how to politicize angst.

Mostly I remember her little
sixteen-year-old breasts,
so angry, so sweet.

I wish we could both
return now,
to that brief vacation
in genteel Brighton.

To again
rage against the machine,
that has chewed us both up.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2024

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