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At my gateYou are now at my gate / and let me just state... / Ignorance is not bliss,
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Nov 19, 2012
Back in BaltimoreBack in Baltimore / That was the real days / Every week, all the heat went by in a haze
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Jul 21, 2011
College DegreeWhat’ll happen if I don’t receive my university degree? / Will I wake up one day with 5 kids and an extreme head ache? / Will I have a son that I’ll yearn to Yank out of his world and bring him back to ours,
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Jul 21, 2011
Happiness to MeYou see I, I find happiness in my mother’s eyes when she comes home from a long day of work and the house is clean. / I find happiness in my brother’s words when he sees that baby girl he hasn’t in so, so long. / I find happiness in my baby sister’s legs when she’s dancing in various patters across the floor.
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Oct 10, 2011
JokesterHa, was that ever funny! / Man, that was even more hilarious, / You crack me up.
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Jul 21, 2011
Motion Picture Starring...It's like dashing back inside, at night, with no shoes on because you needed your flashlight out of the car for the sleep over. Terrified of what might be behind you. / It's the same feeling you get in your chest when you're startled at the movies with Jacob and Vesha because the psychopath gets his kill on screen. / It's the same as that time you got that twinge in your chest and your eyes began to well up (DON'T CRY), like they did when you watched that unbearably dramatic scene at the end of "The Fox and the Hound" when you were six.
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May 24, 2015
OUTStretch all muscles in the figure; escape all obstacles within the tremors. / Escape for a moment in a new time and place / Where miniscule aspects like a dime or pace
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Jul 26, 2011
Poli Sci 1321Oh how I understand the discretion policy of political views in professional environments. / I sit at the top of the lecture hall and become queasy. / I retch at the sarcasm spewing from his lips.
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Jul 21, 2011
She ShallNot in my shadow but in the bright light, free / Live through me. / The one who’s triumph shall exist through generations x, y, and z.
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Oct 17, 2011
SicknessThere is a sickness in my gut. / “Why?” / I writhe and wrench at my punishment by another
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Jul 26, 2011
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