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Just Stopping By

by Constance St. John Marchiel
Issue #8
Fall 1975
Who shares your room, I wish I knew. A centipede, with eyes of blue? She will not see me snooping here To count each slipper, boot and shoe. Our little dresser must think it queer To hold her panties pink...

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