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Prerequisites
My hands are not my hands / My voice is not my own / My lip never was my lip
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Relative Deviance
Who minds getting / Choked? / Slap me,
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Catharsis
Catharsis is finally putting that bullshit in the past. / Is changing rather than conforming / is finishing last in a one person race and not caring.
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The Institution We Are In
My college instituted a new policy today. / In an effort to promote solidarity, / All students, professors, service workers,
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This Poem is Not About Abuse
Spare a job, spare a penny, and spare me the chorus line. / It’s tough finding work in 2009 / But if you’re alive when you get this,
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C. / P.C.
It smells of soco in the air. / She gave up her body to preserve her dignity / But in the end, she lost that too.
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Sleep
"Neither him nor I could decide for ourselves if we wanted to outlive the night.” / - Tomas Kalnoky of Streetlight Manifesto, The Big Sleep / It wasn't necessarily bad,
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Enabler
What would you say if you knew / your life raft / Is the only thing enabling you to sink?
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Marble Statues
Stretch out your hand. / Smooth the cracks on your fingers. / they say doing this enough can cause
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Division By Three
Write me a melody. / Nothing too simple, though that’s what you lead on / Building a bridge over a lake of fire
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