Playground names that don’t break bones

but lodge beneath the skin

Teenage taunts that build a wall and

haunt the life still to be lived     

Endlessly repeated unless we break the loop

Malintent, working torment, war of words

and power games, 9-5 hostility

Cunning insult greased by wine, each line etched

with fear and fright o...

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