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Not to die or to perish or to fall off a cliff 
Not to disappear from the hearts of others
Not to drowned, stuck in a submarine 
like a can of tuna. I never want to reek of tuna
or reek of cigarettes. I don't want to party
so hard I end up in jail, eating nutri-loaf.
Nutri-loaf is supposed to be nutritious
but it taste like pig-guts mixed with sawdust. 

Not to end up on the news because some racist
murdered me in cold blood. They could kill me
because i'm gay, because i'm black, because
I do the right thing and have progressive opinions.
I don't want to get in a fight with a half-goat, 
half-woman creature at a bar, but tyrannies 
are so prepared to fight. I swear all tyrannies 
carry pepper-spray and brass knuckles, which is why
I want to be friends with these people.

Do you know what an Ass Assassin is? 
It's a gay man just like a **** Stabber 
is a gay man. Lesbians don't really 
have anything that funny to be called. 
Some people  call them Bean Flickers, 
but that only makes sense if they are Mexican.

Everything is so mixed up these days. 
Some people would say life is like a box 
of chocolates. You never know what you are
going to get. You might get herpes or syphilis
Pray to god you don't get AIDS, but that's not
as bad as it used to be.It's worse to get audited 
by the IRS. I don't expect much out of life, 
but i hope to get better health insurance
and maybe if i am real lucky a girlfriend.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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