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Lucky Strike

“His hair was a wild

tangle; the front of

his shirt was torn”

—Ridley Pearson, Dave Barry

Peter and the Shadow Thieves

It wasn’t supposed—

To happen but it did anyway

Peter Pan grew up one day

Outta the blue he came—

All grown up with goodlooks

That could just kill

Young male Fairies—

According to the Storytellers

Get that way sometimes

They’ll edge it up—

A notch or two in Time

Into Teenage Adolescence

Just enough to get—

The feel for what guys like

Me crave in a guy like him

There he was one day—

Stretched out in a hammock

Smoking a Lucky Strike