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Eating Dirt


I think I want to eat dirt I was watching this show once And this fat pregnant lady Was eating dirt I didn’t watch to see why I just thought it looked fun I was 6 And when you are 6 And you see someone do something strange You automatically think its fun I didn’t watch to see that She wasn’t doing it for fun But because the man that planted his seed in her Wasn’t tending to her very well She was eating the dirt because her Body her big fat body was craving the nutrients The nutrients of mother earth To mother her seed So that her baby could live and grow And as could she Because the man that planted his seed Doesn’t bring home enough money to Put dinner on the table Just enough to fill his belly with alcohol Because the seed he planted in her Isn’t as important to him as it is to Make sure that his liver isn’t strong enough to make it To that babies sixth birthday Because when you are 6 things that are strange looks fun And watching that lady eat dirt looked fun Just like watching daddy hit mommy is fun Just like he said she said is fun And stabbing each other in the back is fun For when you are six things that are strange Look fun So watch what you do Because the innocent see all.
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TLAnderson
About how when you are a child things are not always what they seem.

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