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Apr 2014 · 480
Not Today
Liz Devine Apr 2014
I can wake up real early
Get myself out of bed,
all on my own
paint on my smile
and wipe away my tears

but not today,
today is for rest

I can sit at my desk
and stare at the screen
make it look real
and impressive
play professional like a big girl

but not today,
today is for creating

I can sleep
without tossing and turning
and dream sweet dreams
that last the whole night through

but not tonight,
tonight is for remembering

I can love
you, like a king
to my queen
I can hold you close
and make your pain dissapate
into nothingness
until there's nothing left at all

but not with this heart,
this heart is meant to stay broken
Mar 2014 · 375
Today
Liz Devine Mar 2014
Everything hurts today,
I try not to move much
but the knots in my stomach,
make it hard to hold still

When you touched me
something within me woke up
and for the first time,
in a long time,
I was really living

But now it's gone,
and the death of my heart
is too big a burden to bare

my soul, a bloodied war zone
my body, a shaky home built for two
won't bother you anymore

I'll let you go--but not today,
tomorrow.
Mar 2014 · 356
Snake
Liz Devine Mar 2014
He slithered in,
taking my hand,
holding my heart

and I didn't look back

I ran behind him,
trying my best to be seen
letting go of my only truths

and he stole all I had left of me

I laid their festering
diseased and decaying
like an open sore
a poorly healed wound

and the scar still remains

I try to hide it
pretend it's invisible,
that I am invisible
but all they see is the scar
it's too loud not to hear

and I can be better, I can overcome

I'll put on my brightest smile
wipe away the tears from my eyes
carry on,
and convince myself that I've forgotten
all the sharp corners
and all the slimy details.
Mar 2014 · 1.4k
Vessel
Liz Devine Mar 2014
Hey, you
don't ignore me when I speak
I have a voice,
and I'd like you to listen
'Cause I listened to you

Don't step on me,
push my face into the dirt
laugh at me,
*** on me,
kick me when I'm down
I'm here, I'm real
you can't take that away from me

I'm not a vessel
I'm no "host"
for a life that isn't my own
I'm not defined
by my ability to create
it's a blessing,
not a guideline

Just because I can,
Doesn't mean I have to
Just because I do
Doesn't mean I will

Your God's no better than mine,
just because he agrees with you
and he favors your life over mine,
excuse me while I get back in place

This body,
my body, wasn't made
to create, to bare, to endure
it was made, I was made
for choice
for power
for purpose
and no man, policy, or "divine" rite
can take that away.
Liz Devine Jan 2014
You stepped in, you stepped out
but I didn't think it would end
not, this way
not in a way, that makes us enemies
makes me good and you evil
tears me apart
but leaves you
unscathed

But you weren't ready,
for a love like mine
your hollow bones couldn't bare the weight
of my heavy hardened heart
so you fled
and left me abandonded

Alone again,
I'm left trying to turn back the clock
on a love that was forgotten
while I wade patiently,
in a mess I made all on my own
Dec 2013 · 433
Frozen
Liz Devine Dec 2013
Frozen,
I lay still
under the fallen snow and
wait,
for the sun to kiss my blue
lips,
and release me from my icy grave

They left me here,
to die
wilt away into nothingness,
just like the others
but the cold keeps me solid
keeps me awake and aware
and as I peer through my snowy bed
I see only a sea of white
A frozen abyss
and a place of perpetual dreaming

I will wait here,
like a snake in the grass
for my sun to return
to melt away these frozen chains
and release me from this place of rest

No matter how long,
I will keep my faith
through the endless grey
and the moonless nights
I won't give up hope
because the light will shine again,
this much I know.
Dec 2013 · 768
The Blow
Liz Devine Dec 2013
I stood there frozen,
unable to move
breathe,
or blink

For a moment,
everything was gone
It was all lost
fallen and forgotten
in the in between
out in the great unknown

But air filled my lungs again
and with all my strength
I beared the wait of breathing
of life and death
and all that comes with it

I moved my feet, first
wiggled my toes around
just to make sure I still could

My feet danced in my shoes,
kept warm by my stockings
and I knew,
that your goodbye didn't **** me

*But it didn't make me stronger
Dec 2013 · 666
The Death Bed
Liz Devine Dec 2013
I saw him laying there
still, so very still
I thought he was dead
gone
already passed through
to the other side

Then his chest rose
up, aghast
struggling for breath
his eyes winced
legs pulling up into his chest
feet flailing and twitching

I could feel
the pain that ran through
his fragile, still body
cold, small, and grey
and I stood back from his bedside
my eyes still focused
on his shaking frame

Death hung heavy in the air that day
I could smell it on his skin
God was waiting
to take him home
but still he held on,
breathing and stopping
breathing and stopping

Life is strange sometimes
made even stranger by the reality
of death
of opening oneself
to the never ending abyss
to the ever after when the rainbow has passed

Goodbye, love
I'll be seeing you,
on the other side
Nov 2013 · 370
Sometimes, I Can
Liz Devine Nov 2013
I can,
wake up all by myself
clear the dust from my eyes
sometimes,

sometimes

I can,
pull the bottle down
and swallow the tiniest of pills
sometimes,

sometimes

But other times,
I can't wake up
or pull my head up for air

Instead I lay lifeless
and suffocate under the weight
of my comforter and my strangling sadness
Oct 2013 · 444
Untitled 1
Liz Devine Oct 2013
Once,
I cried and screamed
begged and dreamed
for the ripping to be over
for my nightmare to end

But now,
that the pain has subsided
and my wounds have finally healed
I can't wait to again feel the blow
of a tormented, reeling heart

Because sadness is an excuse
to feel something
live and breathe
pumping within your chest

My hardened heart
was bloodied and torn
but at least it was there at all

Now inside my breast
I carry an empty steel box

an empty, dead
wretched thing
that never lived
or laughed
or  ever took a fall
Aug 2013 · 599
Fool
Liz Devine Aug 2013
Oh, what a fool I was,
to believe in fairytales
and happily ever afters

Oh, how terribly naive
to let you back in
through the revolving door,
such an easy way out

I guess I should've known you were lying
when you told me you cared
and looked away,
blinking twice
even your body
refused a lie so bold

I should have been weary
of that glassy stare
knowing all the while
that as you held me
you weren't really there

But oh darling, I was just a girl
in love with a boy
whose heart was cold and broken
and bred to destroy.
Aug 2013 · 961
You Have a Dead Heart
Liz Devine Aug 2013
You have a dead heart
cold and lifeless
taking space in your chest
repugnant and rotting,
I can smell death on your skin

I tried to give you mine,
hands shaking and body breaking
I held it to your lips
and said swallow

But instead you spat
and kicked it to the floor
Because your dead heart
didn't understand what it was for

I tried to put it back,
cram it down my throat
but my little heart was weary
and lifeless
and now live, it just won't

You prefer your heart dead
the feeling kind, you never will be
but baby I liked being in love
what a shame it didn't like me.
Aug 2013 · 861
Shiver
Liz Devine Aug 2013
I stood,
with my feet in the sand
and my toes barely touching
the cool water that rushed in below

I felt,
cold because I knew you were close
could feel your sharp touch
at my back, on my pelvis
and I froze

You were a ghost,
a salty tongued devil,
and I
foolishly tried to make you live
gave you warmth
layed you on my *****
and tried to breathe life into your lungs

But my love,
we were doomed for failure
because pray as I did,
and try as I might,
once something dies
you can't make it live.
Jul 2013 · 390
It's My Time
Liz Devine Jul 2013
I'm trying
with closed fists
and a clenched jaw,
not to hate you
for everything you are,
but I can't make miracles
and I never called myself a saint

I'm doing my best
not to curse your name,
or wish ill upon your head
but the blackness is bubbling up,
and I can't hold it down forever

I'm quietly,
violently
wishing you away,
praying for your non-existence

I'm hoping
you'll just disappear,
where you stand
and dissipate into nothingness

Because I've been nice for too long
and it's my time
to be angry
and spit spite your way,
to hate and to hold
your memory in my mouth,
chew it up good
or swallow it whole,
doesn't matter
either way, you'll become my ****.
Jul 2013 · 355
Your Love Lost its Flavor
Liz Devine Jul 2013
Those clouds are rolling in,
again
to say their morbid hellos
to my blue sky
and cover the bright sun

Today is new,
but it tastes stale
lifeless,
flavorless,
like it had been chewed, before you spat
it into my mouth

Empty,
and burning with envy
lost with love
I lay,
and you lay
in different countries
and separate beds

We missed the spark
the old heart
we shared as one
the one that once connected us

Gone,
empty,
broken and stolen
Left,
with no leg to stand on
I rest alone
and try to remember,
the man I've spent
the last three months
trying to forget.
Jul 2013 · 434
My Heart Was Too Heavy
Liz Devine Jul 2013
My heart;
fell from my chest
and landed on my lap
the day I saw you,
and her
together, and I knew
that it was really over

It burst open,
and spilled blood over my knees
and it dripped down to my toes;
until I was covered
in my own mess
Yeah, you caught me red-handed

I stopped breathing,
even thinking,
for a moment
as I watched my little broken heart
try its best to beat

It flopped and shook
all over the floor,
until it was too weak
to move
and then I watched it die

It's okay,
I'll probably live longer
with out it
Heavy hearts
like mine,
are nothing but trouble
Jul 2013 · 395
Untitled
Liz Devine Jul 2013
I'm sort of just now
becoming
real
transforming into the girl
I was meant to be
the kind of girl
I always dreamed of being
but never had the guts
to become it

I never liked to hide in pain
I'd just rather always feel something
as opposed to nothing

rather have hot and cold
than luke warm, all the time
making me nauseas
I'd always choose day and night
over the murky grey abyss
life fading into bleak
nothingness
Jun 2013 · 347
Just Like in the Movies
Liz Devine Jun 2013
I've written this love story,
our story,
over and over again
with different plots

Changes of scenery,
but the actors remain the same
same mouths,
eyes
and lips,
same touch,
passionate,
award winning,
and fake

Movies may look real,
but real isn't in the movies.
Jun 2013 · 1.3k
I Come without Cumming
Liz Devine Jun 2013
I didn't ***
until you left my body
Left me alone,
to remember me
and what my body wants

It was you,
but it wasn't

Full of contradictions and insecurities,
we made the beast
and unleashed a beast

Now, it's taking over
devouring me whole
licking and stabbing,
loving and hating

What you gave,
and what you stole
was never real at all.
May 2013 · 725
What Was Lost
Liz Devine May 2013
I think it really could have gone
somewhere
you know, could've been what
it wasn't
but I lost it.

I always do that,
lose the important things
the things you put it your pocket intentionally
and say, "Okay...STAY."

Like when your mom gave you her necklace
a shiny jeweled fish,
wiggling on its golden line,
and you promised you'd take care of it
but you didn't
and it ended up at the bottom of your toy box

That,
is this.
This same feeling
was here. I had it.
I was going to love it
take care of it
watch it grow
into something beautiful.

But I lost it.
I checked all my pockets
and my toy box twice
but it's gone.
Feb 2013 · 732
Remembrance
Liz Devine Feb 2013
The rain pours and pops ,
outside my window pane
and I can hear thunder rolling in,
behind the hills

The white of my comforter
is stained wet from sweat,
and feet
and summer skin

I try to keep your smell,
pressed into my sheets
and the pillow case,
that once held your head

Bronzed and beautiful,
a body built for two
and to always be
touched,
kissed,
and forgotten

But I won't forget you, love
and for every drop of rain
for every splash and ping
I will fall ever the more in denial
that our love was not,
meant to last.
Feb 2013 · 311
Summer '97
Liz Devine Feb 2013
I stopped,
stared...
and tried to remember,
what your mother looked like

Or how I,
had remembered her

It was a long time ago, huh?
we were just babies then
playing house until the sun set

Catching fireflies,
without a care in the world

We didn't know what would come,
for us
and we were too innocent,
to realize
that we had it all.
Feb 2013 · 448
Sunday Sickness
Liz Devine Feb 2013
My skin is dry.
I watch it crack and peel,
flake and fall down,
roll off my body to the floor

My hands are tired
from sleeping with closed fists,
from trying to hold on,
and fighting to let go

My body aches
and my face twitches
while my head pounds
with loud thumping,
in my ears.

*I think something's wrong.
Feb 2013 · 451
At Winter's End
Liz Devine Feb 2013
I guess I've been trying my best,
to avoid this
to keep the beast from waking
and to stop the noise,
before it gets too loud

But it's coming,
just like it always does
and I can't hide from it now.

No, spring
won't come soon enough
to save me from the winter's wind
and its deafening chill.
Feb 2013 · 364
Your Love Song
Liz Devine Feb 2013
Do you remember what you said to me?

When you told me you wouldn't leave?

Well, now you're gone
baby
You're so far gone

But,
I can't love a hallucination,
cannot live in my imagination
I get so high off my frustration
it takes ahold of me

and makes a fool of me
I'll agree, it makes a fool of me
Jan 2013 · 482
Here We Lay
Liz Devine Jan 2013
So here we lay,
in the valley of unrest
Broken, bare, and waiting
in perpetual loneliness

But could it be,
that you're unlike me?
and this soul
is but a distant memory?

That splays open,
my body,
my womb
that darkens my heart,
my cage,
my tomb.
Liz Devine Jan 2013
Today I let you go,
and it didn't hurt
and I didn't cry

Last night I released you,
while I was sleeping
Like a soft,
quiet exhalation
that no one heard
and no one saw

I woke up wondering
if I had left you.
Or if,
I was ever in the back of your mind

Perhaps that nimble little moon,
that brought us together
finally decided,
to rip us apart.
Jan 2013 · 671
Imaginary Boyfriend
Liz Devine Jan 2013
When I woke up this morning I felt,

differently.

Like somehow overnight
the world,

fell back into place.

I was me before I met you
and it felt,

good,
and empty.

Like I had never fallen asleep in your arms
Like my lips had never known your,

sweet kisses
or tender touch.

Today was the first time I realized
that you,

are never coming back.

But you were never really there at all.
Jan 2013 · 358
For You While You're Away
Liz Devine Jan 2013
I wanna to kiss you where it hurts
until the trembling stops
and the pain
has gone away

I wanna bathe you in sweet light
cut you loose from sin
and give you a seat
upon my back

I wanna **** the nectar from your skin
drink it down,
until the last
d
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         has settled
on my lips
Jan 2013 · 438
I Am a Me Not an Us
Liz Devine Jan 2013
I dreamed a dream
Just a silly little thing

I was there,
sitting cold
In front of the mirror
Donned in white and lace

Champagne was poured
And I sipped it slow
As my hands shook the glass

Friends rushing and running
Falling and laughing
All around me
Adoring me
But they couldn’t see,
my fear

I opened my mouth
But my chilling cries fell flat
So I stood up and ran

And my dress went from white
to black.
Liz Devine Jan 2013
Sometimes I drink,
to numb the pain
Or to feel something outside
of the murky, grayish
lonely ticking
That replaced my heart’s beating

But the funny thing is,
and always seems to be
When I drink to make you foggy
you just become more in focus
While your sorry, belligerent
excuses replay in my head

Over and over
until I’m forced to forget
my reasons for hating you
and join you in bed.
Jan 2013 · 753
No Synonym for Nothingness
Liz Devine Jan 2013
This is not life
and I am not really living
in this place far away
up inside the
in between

What happened?

Like,
when someone rips
the tablecloth from underneath
the plates
and they're still left
Spinning.

That’s what this love is like.
Jan 2013 · 345
Once You Were
Liz Devine Jan 2013
Once you were,
the most exciting part of day
An effervescent light,
that screamed past me on the train
that followed me through the streets
Couldn’t focus
Couldn’t wait,
to here that beautiful voice
that made me weak,
made me tremble
And started the storm between my thighs

Once you were,
the only one
who could make me feel the rain
Make me feel free
and powerful
and all of those beautiful things
a girl,
should be made to feel

Once you were,
the sole love on my line
An earth shattering sound
The clearest face in my dreams
and the only song I could ever remember

But now you are,
gone
and I feel like my legs gave out
My hearing stopped cold
my voice went soft
Because my heart stopped beating
the day we said goodbye

And the silence is maddening.
Jan 2013 · 498
Ra Ma Da Sa
Liz Devine Jan 2013
I can still remember
the silent chill of that december
when my body and soul,
I tried to dismember

I can hear it now,
my gentle crying
as I was desperately trying
to make a sound vow

I spoke through my tears
abandoned my fears
and knew I could never
look back at those years

And then like a gift from a dove,
life was put in my wake
as I prayed my soul to take
you answered with guidance from above

But oh, to hear the melody
such a heartfelt symphony
made me stop and tremble
and forced me to believe

That what moved inside my soul
was a rare, impenetrable force
and nothing less than greatest itself
Jan 2013 · 597
The Waiting Game
Liz Devine Jan 2013
I cannot wait,
forever

Without hope,
or some kind of sign
that this impossible love
is a possibility

No, I can't go on,
waiting in the dark
or screaming in silence

Dying day by day
watching you break my heart
without touching it at all
Jan 2013 · 396
Your Home In My Heart
Liz Devine Jan 2013
You wanted one,
ever since you were young

Thought you found it,
once or twice
but it never lasted long

Home,
You've got a home
in me

There's a place in my heart,
where I built you a home
Made of sticks and shabby stone,
I'll keep it there my love,
I won't leave it alone

Home,
You've got a home
in me.

Move in my darling,
take your leave
I'll keep you safe,
and give you everything you need

I'll paint the walls,
and wash the floors
I'll make it a palace,
and keep unlocked the doors

Your kingdom I will build,
upon my sturdy back
I'll keep you forever,
your love is all that I lack

Home,
You've got a home
in me.
Liz Devine Jan 2013
I wanted to be the one,
who could hold you so completely
love you so fully
keep you safe in my heart
protect you, care for you
forever and ever and into the abyss

But you wouldn't let me
didn't realize what you were fighting
what you were really giving up
when you left and forgot to return

I could've loved you
and baby I would've loved you
better
and stronger
than anyone could prove possible
no matter
mother, lover, or friend

I could have loved you better
But even though you said
you were ready for real life
you're not

No, your young heart can't take
the power of a love like mine
Dec 2012 · 739
I Spread My Legs to Speak
Liz Devine Dec 2012
I said "**** me"
but what I really meant was
"love me"
"hold me"
"don't ever leave me"

I let you inside my body
but really you were moving
through my heart
and into my soul

I grabbed you tightly
because I didn't have the words
couldn't say, couldn't do
what I longed to

Now you're gone
and I feel as empty
as an old
tin cup
Dec 2012 · 299
I Watched Our Love Die
Liz Devine Dec 2012
I sat and watched
the bottom break out
the inside shatter
and the nothingness seep through

I was cold next to you
my hand creeping towards yours
as your body shied away

And there it was
the love we made
the heart we shared
was gone

This is low of letting you go
and the way it feels
to feel nothing

Because once it dies
it can't live again
and once my love is gone
you will never get it back
Liz Devine Dec 2012
Sometimes I like to touch it
that warm little place inside of you
where I built a home for us,
yes just me and you

Sometimes I like to kiss it
that mouth,
and those lips
hot and red like chilies

and oh that body, baby
tease me, stop me, tempt me if you will
I love to drag my hair across it
just to hear you laugh

I am venus rising
I'll be your greatest goddess
we'll play pretend
laugh and fight

I'll be here in the morning
as long as you lay,
beside me tonight
Dec 2012 · 370
Wasted Little Love
Liz Devine Dec 2012
I used to sink into you
bottom to the bottomless
I was gone and you,
were all that was left

Once I swam through your veins
and carried your heart in my teeth
used your lungs as drums
until it was me who was moving,
you

I sang through your mouth
and blew kisses from behind your lips
laughed in your ear
and whispered something sweetly dangerous,
that only I could hear

But then you dropped me out
out of sight and out of mind
left behind in a ditch or a sewer,
with the rest of your used condoms

Your filthy little touch
left to reside in my memory
will be all that's left of you
because I'm out of the mud now,
that's right baby, I'm free
Nov 2012 · 358
In My Home, All Alone
Liz Devine Nov 2012
Lately I've been living another life
I play pretend all day
I smile and say hello
Standing tall and pretty
wearing the mask of a happier girl

I come home and busy myself
with things that are normal
things that I would never do
I push my pens and paints away
hide them with my tears
and make believe that it's all okay

But when no one's home and I'm all alone
I crawl under my kitchen table and cry
I throw cups at the wall
and scream until my voice gives out
because I'm tired
of pretending this is the good life
Nov 2012 · 325
Sinking
Liz Devine Nov 2012
I fell from the stars into the sea
and that's when everything went dark
I sank further and further
into blackness
into the unforgiving abyss

I screamed for you
but my voice wasn't heard
nothing could be seen of me
as I slid into the deep
as I let it take me

You were standing on the beach
clenching the cool wet sand
between your toes
feeling it under your feet
staring up at the stars
who had spit me out

You didn't see me fall
or hear my struggle
you just stood quietly
in another world
far away
and unaffected by the noise
Nov 2012 · 387
And Then The Rain Will Come
Liz Devine Nov 2012
And then the rain came down
Quietly, slowly
Dripping from my head
to the tip of my nose
and then down to my feet

The rain comes
only when the sky is smiling
and the night begins to stretch
it's long arms towards the sun
to smother it with darkness
Because its time to say goodnight

The rain will come
whenever you're not ready
when you can handle it the least
that's when it will hit

The clouds will roll in
and you'll be away
from home
from God and all things good

Don't let it drown you little one
keep breathing
and turn your face towards the sky
Nov 2012 · 401
Title unnecessary
Liz Devine Nov 2012
I was there
And it was my body
That shook and screamed
And left blood behind

But I couldn't rip
The memory out
Or throw it away
No matter how hard I tried

They were my tears
The ones that settled
On your shoulder
That ran down to your chest

And you said
It made you feel like
You had been standing in the rain

You were never supposed to leave
My sleepy little moon
But sometimes the sun has to rise
The day must come
Leaving the night alone
Letting you go
Nov 2012 · 335
You at 4:00am
Liz Devine Nov 2012
But there was a part of you, there
that was good
and vulnerable
you let me hold it
only for a moment
and I haven't seen it since

But that was the man
the one that fills my dreams
and makes me sing
who puts my body at ease
that one, the one I saw there

Please bring him back home safe
to me, and only me
for he is mine and I am his
yes, that's the one strong enough
to change the "game"
to change it all

When you moved through me,
I felt him there
and I wished,
on God herself and on every bright star
that he would stay inside me
and he would never leave

But he did.
Nov 2012 · 390
Only Sometimes
Liz Devine Nov 2012
I would never tell you this
not in a million years
let God or thunder or some impossible force
strike me down dead before I utter a word
Before I let a syllable fall from my lips

But,
sometimes
I can't ******* stand you

I can't listen to you speak
without wanting to choke
on my phone
or anything that might be within reach

But I'll never tell you this
because I've foolishly filled your basket
with all of my eggs
and this can't not work
I will not let this die
Nov 2012 · 737
If I Were a Smarter Girl
Liz Devine Nov 2012
If I were a smarter girl,
then I would have left you long ago
I would have turned off my phone
stepped away from your cruel world
and let you go,
but I've never been that clever

If I were bigger
then I'd walk right past you
and when the other boys smiled and winked my way
maybe I would've winked back
but I've never been very visible

If I were happier
then you'd probably love me more
you would want to show me off
because I would make you proud
but I've always been one for tears

The place where I live inside you
is made of shiny plastic
it's cheap and easily subdued
so I moved out
because I won't watch it fall around me

Good bye sweet love
it was nothing less than incendiary
when the rosy glasses covered my eyes
from the certain reality
that soon you will leave
and I will be here reveling in a lost dream
but I'm good and gone
because I've never been one for make believe.
Liz Devine Oct 2012
I forgot to breathe today
when I found your hair
red and shiny,
staring back at me

all coiled and coy
laying there lifeless
in the corner of my closet

I thought seriously
about returning it
but I knew you wouldn't miss it
just another thing to lose
another piece of you gone
I'm sure you didn't notice

So I placed it on my pillow,
laid my head down and gazed
at its beauty and knew
that it looked at home in my home
and good in my graces

I slept beside it for hours
and when I awoke
it didn't greet me good morning
it was gone,
but it was probably never there at all
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Sadness
Liz Devine Oct 2012
It's coming,
and on the edge of my heels
I can sense it
and I know what it feels like

I've got to run
things are too easy,
too simple and suburban,
this life's too apple pie for me

I think I'm masochistic
I've got a constant need for pain
even when it's not there
I'll go find it
or it'll come looking for me

Because it's on the precipice of greatness
that darkness will be lurking
to hit and spit
and pull the rug from under me.
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