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 I learned the truth at 
 That love  meant for beauty queens
 In high school girls  clear skinned smiles
 Who  young and then retired
  valentines I never knew
 The Friday night charades  youth
  spent on one more beautiful
 At seventeen  learned the truth
 And  of us with ravaged faces
 Lacking in the social 
 Desperately  at home
 Inventing lovers on the 
 Who called  say come dance with me
 And murmured  obscenities
 It isn't all  seems
 At seventeen
 
  brown eyed girl in hand me downs
  name I never could pronounce
  Pity please the ones who serve
 They only  what they deserve
  the rich relationed hometown queen
 Married  what she needs
 A guarantee of 
 And haven for  elderly
 Remember those who win  game
 Lose the love they sought to 
 Indebentures of quality
 And dubious integrity
 Their  town eyes will gape at you
 in dull surprise when  due
 Exceeds accounts received
 At seventeen
 
 To those of us who knew  pain
 Of  that never came
 And those whose  were never called
 When choosing sides for 
 It was long ago and  away
  world was younger than today
 And dreams were all they gave  free
 To ugly duckling girls like 
 We  play the game and when we dare
 To cheat ourselves at 
 Inventing lovers  the phone
  other lives unknown
 That call and say,  dance with me
 And  vague obscenities
 At ugly  like me
 At seventeen