When I was a kid, kindergarten first grade, I knew I liked girls the first time I saw a girl do a flip on the bars in a skirt.

White cotton pantiesill do it

Stealin’ my fire, man.

Sisters didnt wear white cotton panties

I don’t know what they wore.

                                 I wasn’t a creep.

Never helped your Maw do the laundryhuh

    Laundry?  with a sneerNo.

I did

      Brought laundry baskets from upstairs down into the basement

Maw had a fourlegged Maytag machine on casters a wringer We shredI shredded Ivory soap bars for detergent When the clothes were washed pushed it over to the deep sink wrung them out then I humpedem up the walkout to the backyard an I held the basket while my Maw hung clothes on a cottonline with wood clothespins

                My sisters wore white cotton panties

Well. I didn’t know until that little girl went round and round.

I was fascinated. I knew I liked girls.

I loved one girl 

She was tentwelve years older than me

Id walk down the block to her house an knock at the back door an she come out onto the porch

Id give her an apple a piece of fruit candy a piece of vanilla pound cake a caramel  something

We talked a few minutes

I asked her if she would wait for me

    Wait for you?

Jah  Wait for me to growup so I could marry her

How old were you?

Six  Seven

Why would you think she’d wait for you?

Before she went into the house she always gave me a kiss on the cheek

Can you imagine

Love

From a kiss on the cheek   

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