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an extra one for your friends
I will provide
the Baptist preacher

for setting fire to any house
is a crime greater than murder

he’s like a father
[...]

I had tried so many different things,
tried everything
but the fire wouldn’t take;
the Christmas tree I had hacked to pieces
on the 6th of January in my 33rd year
then left for a month
to dry, sap forming beads
on the branches’ cut ends
(crown of studs
around a breast)
was fed into the chimney
as kindling;

“To see the farm is to leave it.”

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Wind Reel And Print
I think
Ill go to my grandmothers house to have a bath
but I leave it too late
so that when I get there the crew has already been at KBs for an hour
maybe more
Its after seven by my batman watch
by the time I get to my grandmothers house
but I force myself to have that [...]