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'how is it' timothy r gates, 4/15/2008

how is it,
a girl loves a boy
not this boy
and this boy not this girl,
still-
she is he
he is she
not a leap
neither asleep,
nor were, are
they
in the same space,
-how is it
a girl loves
a boy loves
her,
she him?
footprints on the moon
we've walked there
how?
I don't give a shit.
air was thin,
but what a view.