This is a work of fiction for the most part. I’m not sure my first kiss was from Lisa (my best friend Barry’s cousin, by the way). But it’s the memory of that spinning bottle, and that fear coursing through a young boys brain and body that this little ditty is about. The names, the faces, the places… you pick your own, and go back when. That’s what I did.
Forever Changed
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Bottle spinning, is but a blur
There on the basement floor
All eyes upon it as it slows
Not knowing what’s in store
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Was Lisa who set it to spinning
Young Goddess with golden hair
Every boy prays, let it stop on me
So a kiss with her I might share
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Slower still the pop bottle spins
One last taunting turn then points
My eyes grow wide, I cannot move
Fear has frozen my young joints
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Panic takes over my mind then
I’m horrified down to my core
Why am here, what will I do
I’ve never kissed a girl before
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From the circle I jump and shout
No way, I just can’t do it
Lisa gives a wink that says
Calm down, boy, I’ll get you through it
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Young lips meet mine a trembling
My life then forever is changed
Fate’s hand upon the bottle spun
My whole world at once rearranged
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Copyright © 1998 C. Mashburn
Sherry said
Thank you, Lisa!
charlesmashburn said
And Pam and Shirley, and… i better stop righ there
Sherry said
yeah, you’d better
charlesmashburn said
ah’ight den…