Tara Jaquette Poems

When you looked at her, what did you see?
A naïve-looking face, with simple blue eyes, and a smile like the sky,
Just being with her- it made your social standpoint fly
She had not a face of beauty, but that of an innocent soul,
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He blocked out the parts of her that made his mind spin,
Her thoughts, actions, the way she perceived the world- they were incomprehensible to him,
All he saw was the alluring and familiar simplicity of her eyes,
She was a novel; he bothered to read only the first sentence,
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