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*When I turn 18 I'm gonna exercise my rights That atrophied muscle I was denied Since I was born. I'm gonna start with a lotto ticket And a pack of cigarettes (don't think I'll smoke them though)* I turned 18 eleven days ago And since then my dreams Like puffs of smoke from the cigarettes I never bought Have dissipated into air that just barely occupies my lungs I have no home No family No rights to the one thing I wanted The one thing I convinced myself I deserve: Happiness. Gangrene eats the atrophied fibers And loss of hope eats my soul Aren't these trials supposed to make me stronger? Or am I too weak? I don't want to carry on.
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Mar 20, 2013
Mar 20, 2013 at 1:00 AM UTC
Exercising my rights
*When I turn 18 I'm gonna exercise my rights That atrophied muscle I was denied Since I was born. I'm gonna start with a lotto ticket And a pack of cigarettes (don't think I'll smoke them though)* I turned 18 eleven days ago And since then my dreams Like puffs of smoke from the cigarettes I never bought Have dissipated into air that just barely occupies my lungs I have no home No family No rights to the one thing I wanted The one thing I convinced myself I deserve: Happiness. Gangrene eats the atrophied fibers And loss of hope eats my soul Aren't these trials supposed to make me stronger? Or am I too weak? I don't want to carry on.
Things are tough right now.
sheeda
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Mar 20, 2013
Mar 20, 2013 at 1:00 AM UTC
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