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Friday Night

Were you the one who lifted that toilet paper from rehab? That’s some fine industry, ain’t 2-ply But that’s some fine ass 1-ply. (You do what ye’d like, sir, I’m a-headin down to YOU-gene to get MEself a turkey DIN-ner!) I’ll getcha a 40 if you lift one of them American Flags from the apartments over there. Check it, Frat folks are a patriotic bunch. What’re we gonna do with it when we get it? Sew it round my hips, imma burn the edges up to my thigh, I wanna look like sex tonight. While you do that I’m gonna sew it into the toilet paper. Patch it through here and there, That’s some fine industry, American-ply. (It’s not such a bad way to git around, so long as ye ain’t got a burden on the back, make the tire drag. Yissir, if ye can do without, ye can go just about anywhere.) I’m gonna write Positive Liberal Slogans on it. Fuck you. From across the park she’s looking in the window from the garden, holding her child wrapped in cotton. She hasn’t moved for a while now and I start to wonder How something that looks so much like someone I want to love Can be just a pile of sticks and nets and perspective.
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