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The Ringmaster


You call it life.

I call it game.

You call it love.

I call it lust.

You call me strange. 

I call me crazy. 

They call it drugs. 

I call it silence.

They call it addiction. 

I call it loyalty. 

They say I'm fucked up. 

I say thank you. 

 

 

 

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