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how to seduce a teenager

choose someone painfully mature

therefore lonely therefore sympathetic

tell her how buddy rich played

your song on tour  about the royalties

how you wrote that song in germany after

vietnam (where you were shot down three

times) tell her about the war only once

about free falling about certainty about death

about the people you killed

hint at psychotic aftermath

be surprised you are telling her

never mention it again

question your motives but not too thoroughly

she is waiting to be told she is

waiting