Cramped in a schoolroom, moccasined feetBush-haired and edgy he yearned for the streetA girl, brightly blonded with twinkled blue eyesCaught attention with pearl-smile, this dead-duck young guy!

In their youth-blushed excitement, exchanged furtive glancesFrom the room built for learning, engaged lurid chanceslove's beauty for taking, in long, ermine stanceGave way towards the physical pursuit of romance

Her Home like any day, parents long goneOnly, toted she daily his heart into songAnd with pizza, and Kissing in her purple roomIn her unicorned, Journey-songed, passioned perfumeHe was taken up, months with her joie de vivre wayBut their quick-exchanged breakups, and make-ups would sayThat their goodness together, and first lovers-makingIn his car, 'neath the stars, was no permanent slaking.

And though Palmer helped him, not enoughRenewed life, stoned, his courses roughThough another came to touch his heartThe choice love made, not nearly as smart