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I am sure this kind of admission shocks

some who read it.  This is for you, G-Fix:

from the Summer of Sixty-nine to the Summer of Seventy-Six,

you were my foremost crush (even before and above David Cassidy,

barefoot in the so-called teen-crush magazines;

which---despite the judgmental stares of cashier-clerks---

I purchased).  Prejudiced and prudish jerks

could not trample down my love for him or for you,

long-haired, shoeless, shirtless, clad in black jeans

and (what a bonus for me!) charcoal gray socks,

which shoes only rarely (another bonus!) concealed.

Through loving you, my soul's nature was revealed:

in gratitude to you, I offer this poetry,

grateful for what you silently taught me, too.

StarSpared