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Sixteen is when the gays want legal sex.

What happens when lads younger have a go

(at public schools and that) in most respects

is still outside the law.  Lesbians, though,

can smooch at any time, ’cause no one checks.

No hetero or homo is reported.

What they do is accepted—that’s all sorted.

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(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

   

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