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Nov 2022
There's somethin' awful wrong with the world,
been that way for a long time. This planet we live on,
it's the only place we's got. You can't walk from
one end of it to the other, 'cause it's round,
and you ain't gonna find nothing better at the
end of it, 'cause there ain't one. Yeah, you can
dump all your junk and garbage on the side of
the road, but after time, there's ain't no place
to do that no more. And the water that used
to be crystal clear now's muddy, and the air's
*****, too. The folk with all the money don't
give a **** about us. We barely knows how
to read or write good. We're poor as dirt.
That's the way it's been forever, and that's the
way it is now, and that's the way it's always
goin' be. 'Course when another war comes
along, we's the ones that gets shot and killed.
There's somethin' awful wrong with the world,
been that way for a long time.

TOD HOWARD HAWKS
TOD HOWARD HAWKS
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TOD HOWARD HAWKS  80/M/Boulder, CO
(80/M/Boulder, CO)   
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