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My friends ask me

All the time, they'll be checking on me.

"Hey! How you feelin' today?"

the way you'd ask a cancer patient and his family.

And I tell them frankly,

"Oh, you know,

some people here,

some people there.

Some corpses here,

some corpses there."

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Dec 22, 2014
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#honesty#mood#swings#brutal
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