smiles should be pawned for bullet

face feels like its been dragged down a road
drugged
fugged up to only be forgotten
after birth
post rehearsal
year after year after queers
these systems collide
into similar refrains
into shrouds
covering the uselesness of it all
doing what i do
no matter what
life goes regardless
these are the settlements we have been dealt
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732013
for no one