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when you trim your ***** and your mustache with the same pair of scissors when you hand over your entire paycheck to the bartender of doom and glee when you write a bounced check at the grocery store when you sleep with a girl who isn’t clean when you’re young, lost, broken and poor when your childhood runs hard and your luck runs out when your best friend is dead and your other friend is ******* your girl when your dog sleeps in the afternoon and dreams of the neighborhood ***** when your nutrients gets replaced with Xanax bars over the one who just left when your tired eyes meet the brick & mortar of strenuous labor when the smile is so fake that it appears genuine when you go all in on someone you weren’t 100% sure of when you wait on bleeding knees for the unreliable god when you bet on the boxer that crashed to the canvas when the interest is high and the banks are closed and the creditors don’t care about grace periods when you understand very little and you expel a whole lot when the cord of anxiety strangles your very essence when you turn out to be just as everyone expected don’t worry it’ll all turn around and find you again someway somehow.
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May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM UTC
between the ages of eighteen and death
when you trim your ***** and your mustache with the same pair of scissors when you hand over your entire paycheck to the bartender of doom and glee when you write a bounced check at the grocery store when you sleep with a girl who isn’t clean when you’re young, lost, broken and poor when your childhood runs hard and your luck runs out when your best friend is dead and your other friend is ******* your girl when your dog sleeps in the afternoon and dreams of the neighborhood ***** when your nutrients gets replaced with Xanax bars over the one who just left when your tired eyes meet the brick & mortar of strenuous labor when the smile is so fake that it appears genuine when you go all in on someone you weren’t 100% sure of when you wait on bleeding knees for the unreliable god when you bet on the boxer that crashed to the canvas when the interest is high and the banks are closed and the creditors don’t care about grace periods when you understand very little and you expel a whole lot when the cord of anxiety strangles your very essence when you turn out to be just as everyone expected don’t worry it’ll all turn around and find you again someway somehow.
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May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM UTC
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