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These Are The Words


CreepFatLoserBipolarLonerStalkerLiarAnorexicSoGayA.D.DPoserNoFriendsFake

These are the words
These are the words that are thrown around so carelessly in the halls of my school
These are the words

*** **** ***** ***** ******* ****
These are the words I am terrified to say
But hear on a daily basis followed by
“It’s just a joke”

Is it?

I wonder if you know about the girl who cries herself to sleep every night
or about the boy who hung himself last week
because “it was just a joke.”

You spit these words onto your next victim
and the venom from your bite
sinks in s  l  o  w  l   y

Your ego is too big for you to care
Or notice
The empty desks where he/she/they once sat

Who did this to you?
Who hurt you so badly that you cannot respect others?
Who murdered innocence

CreepUglyFatLoserBipolarLonerStalkerLiarAnorexicSoGayA.D.DPoserNoFriendsFake

These are the words that remain long after everything else has vanished
These are the words that are drenched in poison
These are the words.

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