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Boy Wound Too Tight

a hairless rat swelling up a black cat in a dark room blind cat in a dead alley always runnin, lullin, for a single purpose to west, to east, to lines lollin in splendid speech a lawyer is a lawyer because of another lawyer a boss is a boss because of some other bum curled up to fire purrin in the flames faith a stripped fur against the insane chill smoking a cigarette and tried to smell

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014




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Date: 2/8/2015 2:19:00 PM
An apt description of hell for any child. Your words are raw and vindictive voicing their message onto the page with self-assurance with an accent of anger capturing the reader's imagination and attention. Emile. #7
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Date: 12/16/2014 8:53:00 PM
BRAVO! Really intriguing piece.. Very raw and genuine.. Awesome!~Joel
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Michael Miers
Date: 12/18/2014 8:49:00 PM
appreciate that.

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