He was everywhere back then
the man I had wanted to be
and they had him.
Taking him with them always
....I was full of envy.
They were slender and leggy
with giggles, soft curly hair
and that look they could give you
could make me want to.....
I was fourteen and envious.
I wanted to be that man.
The one they took sneakily
behind the bike sheds,
and into the woods or
smuggled into a bedroom.
Craftily fingered in a
\'ladies\' cubicle
Or joyously handled on the
upstairs back-seat of a
double decker bus.
But always discreetly kept
for purposes of pleasure and
often shared out among the girlies.
There he was, that man i wanted to be.
Taken to all those places
that man on every pack of
John Players Cigarettes.
Me, Hero, sailor of the seas.
In among those eager seekers
of a crafty drag you\'d find me
\'neath a haze of pubescent exhalation.