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Fuck Stallone

get in the ring
im ready to fight
throw me some punches
left hook
right hook
upper cut

bite off my ear
Picasso had to do it
himself

im begging for blood
begging for bruises
begging for it all

and why do you only want to kiss me?

ill run
ill cheat
ill wrong
im no good

im rocky
im rambo
fuck stallone...
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No Time To Quit

you say:
chin up girl
and take the hit

pour me wine
and cut my coke
roll my spliff
kiss me that hit
and don't you forget to fill the syringe
fill it to the very tip

ill drink you down
and smoke you up
shoot you down
and snort you up

take it all
take it now
take my love...
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Poker Face

to a fearful boy who laughs out loud
a fearful fucker pretending to stand proud
a fearful child with needles in his arm
a fearful clown claiming to do no harm

to a fearful mime who hides behind god
a fearful court jester shamelessly holding his rod
a fearful soul standing everyone's friend
a fearful liar who must pretend

to a fearful man...
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Jex

take the backseat baby
you're driving too hard
take the metal off the pedal
and hit the breaks hard

you need to back the fuck up
and get the fuck back

you're cursin and screamin
you're fighting a ghost
im not the problem
im not you're worst

im not the vanity mirror
that's burning your eyes
i have my own
my own sad green...
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My English Teacher Offers me Southern Comfort

i came back
he smelled of coffee beans and pipe tobacco

he offered me southern comfort;
on a chair
and in a glass

she only plays like a little girl
they say
so he can play like the hero
they say

but how could the dirty south save the day?

i let his dog sniff my crotch
he'll...
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Last Request

you made me a lover's last request
that i should hate you

it won't be difficult
i promise

this time i'll do as told
i will think no more good things of you
nor will i ever say anything nice about you

i'll say I once knew him
he may have been good
but i don't remember

it's nice to hate you
i...
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My Serial Killer

she tattooed every heartbreak on her tainted body
what had been designed to protect
quickly became every predator's bait.

each night on her knees
she begs the wishing star
to make her pure again

they could have been the same man
she's your husband's fantasy babysitter
once you try on lolita's dress
you wear her scarlet letter forever

now we purge and...
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Through the Looking Glass

she argues against depth
and yet she hopes to disappear
through the looking glass
where she borrowed her personality from alice
a long time ago

the spaces between her fingertips
is where incest hides.

she tries to fill her life with light-bulbs, bowling shoes, ashtrays, and typewriters.

through the windshield
she's a homegrown black hole.

this is her world
which takes...
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Daddy Don't You Dare

daddy dont you dare
but i won't tell you so.

you hid in bathrooms, women's beds, in the bars and in the stripclubs
and i couldn't find you.

can hide and seek be over now?

daddy, do you wanna know where i hid?

crouching in your liquor cabinet, smoking joints in your garage, and doing lines of coke on your drug...
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Requim for an Innocent Sinner

some tattooed love story mess
a used treasure map with a faded X
tu est mon reve mal
and you.
it's always a beautiful night
for suicide dreams
with bleeding lips
hiding cracks
suitable enough to drown in.
eyes forging sanity
with track marks like purple hearts.
and when i look up
you're never there anymore
to get lost in.