I’ve forgotten when I first read

books about John and Mary,

The Happy Train or Let’s Learn To Read

but I remember the comics

dad bought home each Saturday afternoon

from work. Bundled in his arms were

Beano, Dandy, Eagle, Hotspur, Look & Learn

and I’d devour them one at a time

and no one stopped me.

I loved the strips: Corporal Clott,

Desperate Dan, Dan...

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I wear it on my arm as a symbol of our love,
I admired it and you gave away a part of you to me.
Your style, your flair, your elegance
bounces against veins pumping blood to my metaphorical heart, always.

A symbol of healing, of patching things up...
a bandaid of the heart, the soul...
...of us.

I will be your white band,
I will soak away all that pain, that hurt, t...

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