who never chewed on icicles, never sipped a sneak of beer, never sat in silence unwrapping gifts too early

the east coast kids without patches on their skid-marked skirts
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the east coast kids who stopped saying mama and papa
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the east coast kids who were balding in a falling fashion
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the east coast kids swallow easy mac, renaissance paintings, overcast weeks because the moon is not happy with them
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"the california sun was all I had for breakfast, and it burned my mind"
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are the "cools" kept in your head?

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I wish the woman humming would not stop
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I wish the noises we make in secret could be kept after the fact
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why is the fact, black, cold, lonely, dark, but mostly done?
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