ephebe\ ih-FEEB \ , noun;
A young man.
How is a young man like a girl? He isn't
Awkward like she is awkward, softly turning.
He is hard, wiry, stiff. Perhaps he is
The stem and she, the petal, one yearning
For the other, but also, sometimes, stems
Want to curl 'round each other and petals
Prefer to fall and lay with their hems
Overlapping. Soft with soft; metal with metal.
Can you tell them this is wrong? Or if
The girl is hard like wood and the boy
Succulent as a fall pear, would you sift
Them? Or force them, as if they were toys?
His soft skin thin? Hers like a rock?
Pear juice is blood on a chopping block.
ephebe - a very feminine sounding noun for a young man :)
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