At Seventeen - (Tribute to Ian Janis)
I learned the truth at seventeen
- I learned the truth at seventeen
- That love was meant for beauty queens
- And high school girls with clear skinned smiles
- Who married young and then retired.
- The valentines I never knew
- The Friday night charades of youth
- Were spent on one more beautiful
- At seventeen I learned the truth.
- And those of us with ravaged faces
- Lacking in the social graces
- Desperately remained at home
- Inventing lovers on the phone
- Who called to say come dance with me
- And murmured vague obscenities
- It isn't all it seems
- At seventeen.
- A brown eyed girl in hand me downs
- Whose name I never could pronounce
- Said, Pity please the ones who serve
- They only get what they deserve.
- The rich relationed hometown queen
- Married into what she needs
- A guarantee of company
- And haven for the elderly.
- Remember those who win the game
- Lose the love they sought to gain
- Indebentures of quality
- And dubious integrity.
- Their small town eyes will gape at you
- In dull surprise when payment due
- Exceeds accounts received
- At seventeen.
- To those of us who know the pain
- Of valentines that never came,
- And those whose names were never called
- When choosing sides for basketball.
- It was long ago and far away
- The world was younger than today
- And dreams were all they gave for free
- To ugly duckling girls like me.
- We all play the game and when we dare
- To cheat ourselves at solitaire
- Inventing lovers on the phone
- Repenting other lives unknown
- That call and say, come dance with me
- And murmur vague obscenities
- At ugly girls like me
- At seventeen.
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