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Built a cage in a cage as an olive branch for those who wouldn't call her an animal, but won't call her a person. Built a metaphor to slay her sister, like trying to walk while hammering your own toes; hobbled herself to the master's home, and played with the master's playthings, and ate the master's food, and received the hard end of the master's humor with a smile. We are misinformed creatures- A bird with wings to fly, but no destination. A wildcat that hunts only to **** A serpent poisoned by it's own venom. She traded hands to beat herself to death; died with wrists broken, lacy finger bones strewn across her throat. No melody on her tongue. Nobody dying to meet her. Nobody is dying to meet us.
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Aug 12, 2014
Aug 12, 2014 at 8:01 PM UTC
"Shy Bird."
Built a cage in a cage as an olive branch for those who wouldn't call her an animal, but won't call her a person. Built a metaphor to slay her sister, like trying to walk while hammering your own toes; hobbled herself to the master's home, and played with the master's playthings, and ate the master's food, and received the hard end of the master's humor with a smile. We are misinformed creatures- A bird with wings to fly, but no destination. A wildcat that hunts only to **** A serpent poisoned by it's own venom. She traded hands to beat herself to death; died with wrists broken, lacy finger bones strewn across her throat. No melody on her tongue. Nobody dying to meet her. Nobody is dying to meet us.
austin-heath
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Aug 12, 2014
Aug 12, 2014 at 8:01 PM UTC
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