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Will anyone listen to that boy?
I've heard things in the hallway before.
Little quips about someone shopping at target,
Little jokes about how someone wants to ditch their boyfriend or girlfriend
Little comments.
But they never turn into rumours.
They are said, and then they disappear
Swallowed into a black hole.
Never to be brought up again
Never to be discussed.
Is it too much to hope for
That no one will pay attention
To what a middle school boy says?

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