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Bandages constantly being placed,

Straight onto those voids that were caused

By someone who had no right to harm.

Wrap, tape, cry.

That's your pattern each night, isn't it?

When you weep because of your craving for love.

You do not understand it yet

But you do not require this person in your life.

Yesterday's emotions need to be wiped clean.

We are the uni...

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you cannot shut the whole world off as
and when you please.
i was fifteen
my mother, forty-five, fighting
an incessant war with my headphones.
fewer words,
our days were outlined more with
slammed doors and dour glares,
conversations prisoned behind the fear
of exposing the soft-
ness in the way our hearts beat
or pumped blood
or ruptured
to spill over that   much    love. our hands
...

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eating off the floor momma aint got no plates

she shield me from the world full of crime and full of hate

all of the world going on outside my window, i got a little curious

fell in love with the danger and it made my momma furious

she stopped paying attention

told me her warning was already mentioned

i went on because i no longer felt the love

the streets gave me more affecti...

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