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Two Poems

River Ramos

thumb fuck text

openxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxour mouth
for the cockxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxwe can't write
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxgrandma

give usxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxour state
prison overdosing
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxin huntsville breakfast
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxmother

we don’txxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxexist
moneyed unless
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxour chocolate covered cocoa crisped
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxundead child

fucks us openxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxour mouth
to spit out
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxthat word privilege
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxwe want our T for T
calling daddy collect

Step 7

xxxxxxxhello can y'all hear us
so much static milking
the cow kicking
the still haven't heard anything mule
no news is public defenders good news
bleeding flaccid in the commissary cunt
checking out accept these charges trade school
we mistook her for standing in line to use the phone linda
xxxxxxxgo head
burn the money on our book
tortilla ticket us for fishing
open the bail at ten percent of the bond window
generate the they’re reading my letters curse
that matzo go on facebook and look ‘em up ball soup ruined
to forget shoes at work
xxxxxxxcriminal something to punish
an enemy we don’t live in felony charges texas
substance critique and i ask myself
what, powerless?

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