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cheating life *when that day comes, officially, maybe, anyway, someday here, yo! made it through the pandemic, y’all backslap and affirmatively robust announce: dude! you cheated death! maybe I’ll smile, maybe cry, maybe, nah, surely both, cause we now be practiced in arts of survival, I’ll reply the real trick is not to cheat death, that don’t require much, just careful preparation my file still not closed, and will be unsealed, seen both what was done to me, what I did, on my own, insufficient smiling, inadequate crying, everyones imbalance cain forehead-charted so when you examine your empire on your face, think not you cheated death, you’re a stud, no siree, think about how you cheated, cheated yourself out of life, with insufficient risk taking don’t be stupid, don’t mean going out w/o a mask, ignoring social distancing. that’s just common sense, what I’m talking ‘bout, taking that chance, falling in love, and doing it again and again, before you* cheat yourself out of life...
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Apr 30, 2020
Apr 30, 2020 at 9:59 AM UTC
cheating life
cheating life *when that day comes, officially, maybe, anyway, someday here, yo! made it through the pandemic, y’all backslap and affirmatively robust announce: dude! you cheated death! maybe I’ll smile, maybe cry, maybe, nah, surely both, cause we now be practiced in arts of survival, I’ll reply the real trick is not to cheat death, that don’t require much, just careful preparation my file still not closed, and will be unsealed, seen both what was done to me, what I did, on my own, insufficient smiling, inadequate crying, everyones imbalance cain forehead-charted so when you examine your empire on your face, think not you cheated death, you’re a stud, no siree, think about how you cheated, cheated yourself out of life, with insufficient risk taking don’t be stupid, don’t mean going out w/o a mask, ignoring social distancing. that’s just common sense, what I’m talking ‘bout, taking that chance, falling in love, and doing it again and again, before you* cheat yourself out of life...
thurs apr 30 twenty twenty nyc, epicenter of death 9:37AM
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Apr 30, 2020
Apr 30, 2020 at 9:59 AM UTC
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