{you hurt like the alphabet}

you hurt like ache and adderall and arnica you hurt like bruises and battle scars and broken bones you hurt like cuts and cocaine and countryside you hurt like death and destruction and die-hard you hurt like electricity and emergency rooms and edit-undo you hurt like fuck you's and fire and fallen trees you hurt like garbage cans and gonorrhea and gang rape you hurt like hell and holes in the road and heartache you hurt like israel and illness and ignition fumes you hurt like jaundice and jugular veins and jack in the box you hurt like karma and kissing and kerosine lamps you hurt like lightning and love and literary terms you hurt like mother and mary and moses you hurt like nakedness and nosebleeds and nervous breakdowns you hurt like oil spills and old yeller and oral quizzes you hurt like parkinson's and parties and panic you hurt like queens and questions and quantum physics you hurt like rogaine and roses and rope burn you hurt like solar power and stomach aches and sex you hurt like teeth cleanings and tar and tobacco you hurt like ulcers and underwear and unrequited love you hurt like viruses and venus fly traps and vapor rub you hurt like warning signs and weight gain and war you hurt like x-rays and x marks the spot and xoxo you hurt like your mom and your dad and you you hurt like zig zags and zero and zip ties (a.m.c.)

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