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Live A Life That Life Itself Would Love To Live

by Alex Lillyman

Pain and suffering, now those sisters know how to have a good time, the bitches have gotta be blonde!
To edit and construct our thoughts is to censor what needs to be said in this day and age of...

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Angel

by Ali Khan

I have committed a crime that I am ashamed of abortion,
Hinna blaming herself, crying herself to sleep,
when it was my fault for the rest of my life I am in mourning,...

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An Honest Liar

by Ali Khan

We all made differently, different cultures heights & faces,
So whether u good or bad your gonna suffer cos your presidents cabinet r racists
Life ain’t what u make it, but what is...

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No Mother and No Child

by Alice Homewood

Morphemes and orphans from the third world
Because the fourth world is a little too far.
Stepping out into the crazy sun
Where my irises are bloomed to the pure unadulterated truth....

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In my shoes

by Alison Chabloz

what could I have done
walking down that alley alone
over and along the walls
and roads of daily reminders...

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Gold

by Alistair Melvin

Sparkling
The glitterati twinkle in her eye
You can see through the black and the white
Captured by the paparazzi...

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Gold

by Alistair Melvin

Sparkling
The glitterati twinkle in her eye
You can see through the black and the white
Captured by the paparazzi...

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I Don't Want a Hip Pocket God

by Allene Rasmussen Nichols

I don’t want a hip pocket god
on which to write checks of righteousness
for a miracle here and there,
a mother cured of cancer,...

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I am jagged and secret

by Allene Rasmussen Nichols

I am jagged and secret
like broken glass
hidden in a snowflake-
a suicide bomber....

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COLLISION

by alyth yealland

night time when fire meets ice purple rage meets diamond frost blazing reds and shimmering golds jive and skid on arctic white he burns; I melt. he spits; I crack. night time when fire...

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