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Maybe Some Other Time


I'd be a manic bag lady if you let me,
but I must conform before you see ME.
Pretty boxes and little dolls--
too thin girls who are too tall.
I'll laugh in the face of what you say
YOU LOVE.
I don't give a damn anyway.
I will not accept what you think is "correct"
for to stand erect I will forget
the years of abuse and neglect.
Only God can change the way I am...
But me? I DO NOT GIVE A DAMN.

--Taylor Spalding



A Holier Las Vegas

Speculative and insane,
she gambles
and loses her money to the collection box.

--Hannah Rohde



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