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Row and Wait

was a rape at age fourteen as the babies kept coming with kitchen rods I flushed then down and kept smiling for you to tell thank you it lasted five years until I put my foot down

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Date: 7/16/2015 7:22:00 AM
but really a gun pointed at me early to keep me shush I shot myself in the belly at four in the morning and with a new navel I went my way
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