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Victor Timmons Sep 2017
F/U
Our Freedom is your Failure
Our Unity is your Undoing
Our Confidence is your Collapse
Our Knowledge is your Killing
Our Unbreakability is your Uncertainty
Our Integrity is your Imperfection
Our Solution is your Scream
Our Imagination is your Ignorance
Our Sovereignty is your Sickness
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Written by Victor Timmons
Hidden message
Malia 4d
oh, don’t worry, you’ll find them.
you’ll know them by the stitch
in your side, bent over shaking with
laughter,
the day you miss the bin and
the carton sails straight
into some poor, unsuspecting soul.
you’ll know them by their side-eye,
that single-second, inside joke—
hair-braiding, thumb wars,
secrets whispered in the dark.
and one day, a boy will break
your heart but they will roast that boy
like a marshmallow over a fire.
you’ll know them by the
unbreakability
of a pinky promise,
by the knee-****, camera-flash joy.
you’ll know on the nights so late
that even taco bell is closed,
by the three-hundred bad pictures
of you on their phones.
it’s sticky leather seats in the summer,
all mess and love and side-by-side.
and when four years are past,
caps tipped, turned, and tossed
and you’re standing in a football field with
a runny nose and wet-streaked cheeks,
you’ll know them by the way it
aches
to wave goodbye, to go home because
you’re not 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 home at all—
you just left it.
Officially graduated 💪🏽

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