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Keeping Trade Secrets... Well, Secret


sniff snuff muff
you can smell the sulfur surprise zipties and
unpleasent
dashing really
throwing propriety onto sedge blades
and this damn machine has no switchback
switchfoot clubfoot clubbing up chalk
on back of throats bodylining
front yard peekaboo boohoo i see curtains
swish swosh they give you away
with a hell hell hello who be you
(really think
really now for this
what a creeper)
i see them lines
them widows peaking lines about claw eyes
fall eyes fallen tastes fell grace
felt swish swash tick tosh
oh oh o o 009mil
WHEREZ MY 9MIL
THE FUCKING DUCT TAPE IS GONE
youz been playing with water vents
washer washer now glock washed away how
how
how
how oh we're so not spelling apathetic without
an a an a now hey now hey hey where
you got there where were looks about air foul
what you don't seem so un un unsomething to see me
you're hidden that smile good
must be easy to hide all that behind stained teeth
brain time dome piece meal piece feel
feeling around empty cartridge boxes
like
i knew i hid a heater in this heater
like so clever of me heater heater
clever clever uh that mouth of yours
lever action and oh hunni keep smirking
keep quirking we all play quarks
quack quickslip silverfish hoodies
and it's like ninetey fucking degrees
and roach infested
and furnitureless
trading out couches for fumigants
immigrants little bastard insects
who do you think you be here
like i won't notice the lockbox on the door
eviction without a bowtie
botox and lacewing lace leather hairties
i don't know whether to tease you
or knock your fucking teeth in
kinda funny like
lmao o o here we go again
and yupyup yutyut oh hello no
not playing that anymore
(still rocking dem boots
like i is a boot
damn boots)
your bones be rattling
knock knock fist and man
can't be doing this battered wife
we're not married so what's the thing yeah
won't touch her just damn it man
curious thats all
you kinda wanted to see her cerebral fluid
but she had a damn smile
and damn if it's that four letter word ©

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