Some Forgotten Kid

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I saw him today, this boy I used to know in school. I saw him smoking at one in the morning, walking down some road. I called out to him, and he looked at me, but then he just blew smoke at me and kept walking.
He had a cut across his knuckles, and a new bruise under his eye, from his father or a brother, I assumed.
I wondered if he was still in school. He was a smart kid, smarter than the rest on us, but he could never seem to stay out of trouble and most people gave up on him.

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