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Gurgle fat like London splat:
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He used to beat me
when he used to come home
drunk at night.
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He used to use me like a used tire and I got used to it.
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So I wouldn’t stop the air.
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***
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She’d be the one you’d dance with.
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She’d dance with you and him and her
and him and him and her and you.
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She’d dance with you.
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She’d say “I’ll kill you, bitch, I’ll kill you”
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and then fall asleep with a comb in her hands.
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godforsaken sunk maggot bitch like faggot crazy
stupid other things to say now here but I don’t know
how to spell plastur
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There are things that simple the soul
enough to be warrant enough
for our arrest.
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And I run my hands through your hair,
and you do the same,
brushing the flakes of your forehead
like trouble redeemed.
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