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nobody Daddy

ya want some love but not for keeps,

ya play us well and make the sweeps,

we swept right up off the floor,

we hurried and broomed on out the door.

so take it or go,

make it real slow,

lemme watch ya and think to myself,

"Daddy,

baby, my fine **** man,

lemme watch ya and think to myself,

'When is he gonna trip onto that

fat ****** face?

Pale, ignorant race?'

Not even a trace,

no, no, no."

No, no, no,

not even a single ****** trace

of warmth or love or kindness

or recognition of my humanity,

the sole thing that makes me

a likewise piece of the Earth.

I'm gonna sweep away those ships,

****** doggoned grisly wrecks,

sweep 'em right over the passing waves

and right off the edge of the Earth.

Cuz I don't call NOBODY "Daddy,"

though I call one person "dad,"

"father," "pops" and it pops

I stick my needle through the

pulsing air and it pops

your **** heart pops.

and ya had your fun,

your day in the Sun,

our little run and now,

and now, and now,

oh, now, it's done,

don't make me get a gun.

I know nothin' exists in singularities,

nothin' exists on its own,

vacuums only are in theory,

we are living to our bones

and the living state rests

right into our **** bones,

however,

I can hate you for what you have done.

I can hate you and I will hate you

for every single thing that you have done,

"Daddy,"

"Mommy," too,

the systems of patronizing pater familias

and all working gears of institutional

injustice,

hurt,

pain,

wreck,

my ships may be wrecks, now, too,

but the wind and the breeze are quick to blow

and the direction of the currents are fast and strong.

So just sit there ya ****

sit and **** into your ***** being

just sit there and ya think,

"Why ya fingerin' that doorknob

when I thought I played ya for keeps?"

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hands
Lebanese
Published
Mar 17, 2014
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I don't call nobody 'Daddy'

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