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I feel sick. The taste of cigarettes In ash-colored air - The two are non-sequential. Cigarettes taste like home. The good part of home. The part of home That silences my mother’s mouth; Preventing the vices of its tongue And the stresses that cause them. Over generation. Over generation. You are your mother. A compilation of love Forced by proved masculinity In your open cavities. And my father said... Well - He didn’t. Words failed him, As he failed us. Silence and cigarettes. Over generation. Over generation.
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Aug 17, 2012
Aug 17, 2012 at 6:06 AM UTC
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I feel sick. The taste of cigarettes In ash-colored air - The two are non-sequential. Cigarettes taste like home. The good part of home. The part of home That silences my mother’s mouth; Preventing the vices of its tongue And the stresses that cause them. Over generation. Over generation. You are your mother. A compilation of love Forced by proved masculinity In your open cavities. And my father said... Well - He didn’t. Words failed him, As he failed us. Silence and cigarettes. Over generation. Over generation.
sarah-margaret
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Aug 17, 2012
Aug 17, 2012 at 6:06 AM UTC
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