Football Teenage Poems

I'm okay, 
you're okay is a mask in the land of pretend.
Children say what they feel,
their honestly can bubble over.
Little ones have not learned words...

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Many years ago,
girls wore girdles.
The tight uncomfortable things,
they held one in tight.
One summer's night,
I snuck my girlfriend out.
We were off on a double date,
a night...

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This worm is proud to be green,                  ...

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Poor Mikey
gave everything he had
for fifteen minutes under lights
(and they are expensive lights).
He went down not once but twice
in the same game with the same...

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Brouhaha brewing, my Jezebel comes home glowing;
Football game in progress, but she has gossip to spend. 
Curious winds blustering, in rare decibels growing,
posthaste, I speed...

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Layered Cake pt 1
I’ve known many unsavory characters from my home city of Manchester 
There’s the ex-demolition guy who took a great dislike to me
Did...

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You ask me;

Where was I in the Seventies?
This was my decade, my formative years.
I was a long-haired rebel without a cause,
Football was my religion, rapture...

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Way back then when I was just ten
My brain was purely devil's den
All sorts of studies - made me ill
Opened books were my sleeping pills

Started...

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One Direction asked JLS inquiringly, 
Why they couldn’t all look like Aston, 
So Marvin announced that they all could, 
If they thought their body was...

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LOVE UNDER THE HIGH SCHOOL BLEACHERS 
Some time ago, within a memory
deep in my dark, and most forbidden past,
when I recall your teaching only me,
there...

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a kid in love     in deep adoration-
oh   the worship    the longing affection
I breathed his name

writing it...

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Fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan;
And watched thousands of recruits try to make my Sooners Team.
Often, I’ve enviously wondered what it...

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