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If Only...
If only your skin was a lighter shade / Here, this bleach might come to your aid / If only your lips weren't so full
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Pendulum
I, like the pendulum / Swing from one extreme / To the polar opposite
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Pick Your Poison
Socrates consumed Hemlock, / Cleopatra embraced the Asp, / Alan Turing ate an apple laced with cyanide,
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Tessellation 10w
Jaggedly pieced together / We're fragmented beautifully / Oddly, this love fits
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Nefelibata
Anybody who knows her / Understands she's not like the others / Head in the sky, feet on the ground
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Princess Helena and the Rat King
At the apex of the Empire State Building / Beneath a resilient misty gray sky, / A perfectly dreary day to die
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Bundle of Blue
Joyful boy bundled in blue, / Nine months and a day mommy carried you, / Nine months and a day when I was due,
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Candied Innocence
Big bright eyes and candied lies / Her cupid’s bow gives way to juvenile ebb and flow / A cherubic face in a vulnerable place
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Undertow
**Indignant**. Can’t rid myself of this feeling. / **Anxious**. My blood pressure rises to the ceiling. / **Risk**. Assessing the situation. Your caustic venom I wager.
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The Taste Of...
A man in a tailored suit / A man eating rotten fruit / One divorced three wives
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