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but he did.
5 I lay still
He stayed
He spoke
stone-deaf shells.
little bells.
I didn’t blink,
20 was dumb.
I didn’t shrink,
he squeezed, he pressed.
He propped me up on pillows,
40 So I changed tack,
kissed back,
began to moan,
50 all an act.
Simple as that.
Carol Ann Duffy