First Kiss

Grace
Human Parts
Published in
2 min readSep 8, 2020

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Black and white image of a woman’s lips.
Photo: Softulka/Getty Images

My very first kiss
with someone other than grandma,
mummy, daddy, my niece
or the cat,
was with the other “poor kid”
on a scholarship to our posh school —
a nice boy who also felt he had something to prove.

It came in the form of a dare
roared on by rugby boys he needed to like him…

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Grace
Human Parts

Traveler, poet, educator, yogi, activist, artist, writer, British-Jamaican Londoner living in Ghana https://soundcloud.com/gracelouisewood