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Because I Never Loved You… 12:30

I’m glad I never wrote you poetry Never wasted a drop of ink to ensure your immortality Never spent an hour depicting you marvelous Never carved into marble this feeling I drafted for you Not once did I try to describe the things I lost in the

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eschew (an ode to lil kim’s old face) 11:30

we agreed you was some special kind of bitch bad bitches, rich bitches, hood bitches unite the queen approaches   even the feminists agreed you had every right to be a bitch and a queen simultaneously get free they said wit yo bad self   those of

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10:30

some things are better left unsaid/ those things we say but we later dread

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she get blue somewhere round 8:30

she sit up sometime by de window say she aint waitin be we know she is   he used to come home every night round this time she used to say she aint notice but we know she did   she stop putting red on her lips just

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7:30 Diamond Cut

The worst part is when you know you should have won you should have been the one she saw and knew the one she met and remembered and loved she should have loved you because you loved her already before you proved it before you offered her

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5-6:30 the great by and bye

  God be giving me Exactly what I ask for But in her own way   Sometimes you hold on hoping things will get better and die still hoping  

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3/30 the outskirts of insomnia

sleep stays just an arms length away close enough to feel the cool breeze of an exhale on my neck   you tend to stay much farther away and i need both of you to come closer tonight

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1/30 the water

before i realized you were right in front of me a mirror a pool of still water reflecting all of the best and worst of me back to myself karmically returning everything i’ve ever been to everyone i’ve ever  been with and i get it now  

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I Wanna Fuck Rick Ross

Yes! You read that right. I have been overcome with this uncontrollable feeling to fuck Rick Ross. Raw, ghetto-hood style. Get grimy with it. Yes, I tried to hold it in, but I just can’t! The truth will set me free and I feel like my lady-like

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How to Peel an Onion

1. Let your name be more than an exotic spice in the mouths of colonists. Let it make them cry without apologizing for your flavor. Hide all the water. Make them burn their lazy tongues, take deep breaths and take it whole. Make them swallow hard and

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