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snitches get stitches
a phone call to a friend / threats and crying / there was no wrong here
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the lighthouse
she comes from the foam / the knife from her gut / hidden in her rolling cloak
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for her
with a clatter and crash / the q-tips fall to the floor / her broken skin a pale ash
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Ana
sweat and fat and greed / she comes in / altering my consciousness --
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112.8
it rubs the lotion on its skin / its sickly, rolling skin / my skin --
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today
a grey, old sky / the pounding light confronts my closed eyes / uncontrollable laughter and whispering
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you
you / give me shivers / rolling down my spine
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at gunpoint
i am / one / hundred
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[the tendencies creep back]
the tendencies creep back / like the sun at dawn- / truly numb and
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inside
i ripped at my chest / nails scraping bone and muscle / picking out bundles of fat
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