Smile With Your Teeth

He said let's take a picture
Let all of these boys know that you're mine

I said that's alright mister
But I’m not only into guys

He just laughed and pet my head
And I felt this feeling in my stomach
A fire started to burn
But then he smiled

I knew then that I could be alright
With a man by my side.
When he smiled.
I’m alright.

He said you are ugly
I cut my hair the way he wanted me to
He said I looked fine.

He said she slept above me
I said how could you?
And he said baby, that's life.

And I felt something in my stomach.
A fire started to burn
But then he smiled

I knew then that it would be alright.
To have this man by my side.
When he smiled.
I knew I'd be alright.

He called me silly names
They made me blush and want to hide
He said baby, you're fine.

He told me secret things
And I said boy, you're being mean
He told me that was a lie.
I said baby, you're right.

Cause that's when he smiled.

I'd give you every piece of myself if I could.
You'd say thank you with a nod
And I'd be alright

I'd talk to you more if I knew you weren't so bored.
But I guess I don't really mind.
I guess I'm alright.

I'm alright.

Cause you smiled

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Lust

Me when I care for you
Me when I listen closely.
Me when I could sit and watch
You talk for hours
And me when I do

You when you talk to everyone else in the room but me
And I cry myself to sleep

Me when I'm not the other woman
I'm just a woman who was there
Me when I mean nothing to anybody I’m
Just a body
I'm there

Us when we were and us when we weren't
I'm not there

Me when I'm not real to you
You know I exist don't you?
I'm not just a body

I wanted be somebody to you
I would've done too much for you
You would've done nothing for me
You were never there

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Sisterhood

When I apologize for things that are not my fault.

Feel the weight of it in my tongue.

 When I feel the need to be civil,

not because

 its the right thing to do

 but because

 I don't want to be crazy woman. Hysterical

 woman they would've put in a mental hospital in 1952.

When I think of those women,

my stomach turns. Because

 we are sisters and I feel it

when their fingers prick.

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Experation Date

Cut me open

Head to toe

You didn’t like what was inside of me.

Boys,

They use you up

Until your skin is taught

And they no longer want you.

Suck the life out of me

Again.

I dare you.

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Pity

You will never know

What it means to be loved 

By me.

For that,

I pity you.

You will never know me

The way you could have, 

Should have

Known me.

For that, 

I pity you.

I tip, tip, tip

Toed.

I swam laps around the foregtful part of your mind.

Now,

I stomp, stomp, stomp

In the deep valley of your heart.

Now,

I pity, I pity

I pity you.