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It's that smell of last cigarette on your clothes the hole burned through your white cotton tshirt, pink lipgloss on the cuff of your sleeve where has she been kissing? I shouldn't care. You're sixteen, seventeen eighteen? You're too old, you're too young i'm the little sister, aren't you suppose to be worried about me? It's a lullaby now, a song of return a scent i associate with family smoke sweat and sugar.
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Mar 4, 2010
Mar 4, 2010 at 7:57 PM UTC
Brother brother
It's that smell of last cigarette on your clothes the hole burned through your white cotton tshirt, pink lipgloss on the cuff of your sleeve where has she been kissing? I shouldn't care. You're sixteen, seventeen eighteen? You're too old, you're too young i'm the little sister, aren't you suppose to be worried about me? It's a lullaby now, a song of return a scent i associate with family smoke sweat and sugar.
(c) Brooke Otto
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Mar 4, 2010
Mar 4, 2010 at 7:57 PM UTC
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