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Tirui Getekian is a student at West Los Angeles College. From the spring 2012 issue of West.
Poem #1
Sex is
Eating cheese
While jump-roping
Love is
Quickly square-dancing
While breathing ammonia
You are
The butterfly that accidentally flew under my step one summer afternoon
when I was young
I am
A wind-up doll
Headed towards the wall
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