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Interracial Pride and PrejudiceExistential cruelty of a long abandoned Friday / Remembered once, twice / then forgotten by 8 pm.
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I stare because I'm dyingYou hate when I stare-- / Those long, unwavering looks that let me feel like I’m touching your soul, / they’re my favorites.
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I wasn't joking..The lights of the city sparkle from outside my window. / They, this view, will always remind me of you. / Water splashes down at my face and up at my boots as I walk these cobbled streets
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I come to forgetIt's vicious. / He spits honey-coated excuses / Just as I misplace forgiveness
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What She Doesn't KnowI think of her / running her hands over your hair and across your face / and it makes me sick.
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Moving on?I changed my sheets today - / the ones that smelled like your cologne... / Actually, "tore them from my bed with the ferocity of Midas" may be more appropriate.
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These days...These days... / Are you sitting alone in the quiet and cold / or surrounded by friends with your colors and smoke
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Days like todayIt's days like today / when the sun is shining and the wind blows just a little / that I can't seem to get you out of my head.
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It's a war goin' on outside...Philadelphia warlords slip sideways in a cantankerous bed of grout. / The mind denies what the body acknowledges / in its treacherous games of hope and wait.
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Vision of the White AmericaThe salvation of yesterday's tomorrow / creeps blisterlingly by, / torturingly
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