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Live A Life That Life Itself Would Love To Live
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...
Angel
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,...
An Honest Liar
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...
No Mother and No Child
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....
In my shoes
what could I have done
walking down that alley alone
over and along the walls
and roads of daily reminders...
Gold
Sparkling
The glitterati
twinkle in her eye
You can see
through the black and the white
Captured by
the paparazzi...
Gold
Sparkling
The glitterati
twinkle in her eye
You can see
through the black and the white
Captured by
the paparazzi...
I Don't Want a Hip Pocket God
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,...
I am jagged and secret
I am jagged and secret
like broken glass
hidden in a snowflake-
a suicide bomber....
COLLISION
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...
