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  seeing my mom's underpants
  i asked if she was hurt
  no, boy
  i just do that
 
  it's ok
 
  my first sister
  was frightened
  when she bled
 
  the second
  wrote her name
  on the mirror
 
  used my towel
 
  teenage in high school
  no contraceptives
  waiting for the first blood
  the starting flag
  a few days
  to do it like adults
 
  so horny
  we forget the tampon
  ouch
  now you pushed the string
  up somewhere
  gotta find it
 
  damn string
 
  and the sheets
  my mom really
  must have suspected something
  her son doing laundry at 3am
  hydrogen peroxide works great
  and always use cold water
  and sometimes give up and
  buy new sheets
  but what about the mattress?
 
  jeez
 
  after all this
  it still took years of marriage
  to confidently walk
  into the supermarket
  and distinguish scented(never)
  from unscented
 
  to grab the right ones
 
  light flow
  light-to-medium flow
  medium flow
  medium-to-heavy flow
  heavy flow the rivers of blood
  blood to wash us with new life
  blood to wash us clean
 
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