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I could love you better in blissful memory Then your flaws would slowly dim It would only be right to tell lies of how highly I thought of you soon lies would come to be believed as truth even by their source I'll forget the nights I fled from you The nights the dog yapped and the nights I ******* my hands in my hair ripping it out strand by strand wishing to God you'd stop talking, stop screaming, stop breathing and being
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Feb 12, 2013
Feb 12, 2013 at 5:20 PM UTC
An Ode to an Old Man
I could love you better in blissful memory Then your flaws would slowly dim It would only be right to tell lies of how highly I thought of you soon lies would come to be believed as truth even by their source I'll forget the nights I fled from you The nights the dog yapped and the nights I ******* my hands in my hair ripping it out strand by strand wishing to God you'd stop talking, stop screaming, stop breathing and being
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Feb 12, 2013
Feb 12, 2013 at 5:20 PM UTC
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