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An Awkward Boy
An awkward boy 
 Just a little peculiar
 Almost fourteen
 
 Gangly limbs and skinny build
 A scratchy high pitched voice
 Sinking
 
 lower
 
 
 lower
 
 
 
 lower.
 
 Never looking at one thing
 too
 
 
 
 long.
 
 Even
 
  you
     him    listen
 you
  eyes
 
    back
   forth
  a
 
 
  device   an
 
  storm.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
 
     when
   want
   to
 
 to
     his
    bobble
     and
     like  flotation
 
   in    ocean
 
 He speaks as if
 he’s not sure
 of what he’s saying?
 
 Or even
 if he speaks the same language
 as you? as me?
 
 Every 
 Single
 Button
 Always
 Buttoned
 
    Every
 
    Dirty
 
    Hoddie
 
    Zipped
 
  
    All the way
 
 
 
    Hair
 
 
 
    Pulled
 
 
 
    Forward in
 
 
 
    an odd style
 
 
 
    he insists.
 
 A wonderful brother
 A shining 
 
 shimmering 
 
 glowing
 comet 
 
 of a 
 
 person.
 Bursting
 
 In
 Sky!
 
 
 the
 
 Still an awkward boy
 And we share an awkward family love.
 
 Spiderman Comics
 Scarlett and canary braces
 Pants too short
 
 He is awkward.
 
 Twilight obsession
 Chipped purple nails
 Nose too long
 
 I am awkward.
 
 Hidden jokes
 Stolen silences
 Eternal friendship
 
 An awkward love.

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