Wrong Tampons



If only she knew...
I stood in line
sweating bullets
with this charm
around my arm...

The line was long
a mile long...

The lights were bright
no keeping this out of sight...

I wonder what the women...
thought of me
as I looked around
all fidgety...
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XXXAA BB CC XXXC
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 236
Words 47
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 2, 2, 4

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Poems....are what keeps me going.... Poems are what stops me....My name is Milton...I am young My name is Milton...I am Naive My name is Milton...Doesn't matter... What I say..How I say it...My name is Milton...I thank you for letting me share my burden with you...But I must Warn you...My name is Milton... more…

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