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Oh, yeah (social decay goes on)

CEE

Half-pajama’d
gym shorts over torn out crotch
smelliest robe
sweeping leaves to the curb
so’s the neighbors don’t bitch,
it isn’t that kind of neighborhood, anymore
You haven’t realized it, yet
You do realize the old woman next door finally
sold the place and died,
new neighborhood’s getting out of a monster truck
She flashes a smile that winks tooth juice
there’s an elongated conversation
standard perv, you’re aware of her,
She’s young enough to be your daughter
(if your first GF hadn’t been sculpted out of
liquid nitrogen)
girl’s a geometry book of curves, all baby fat
just one baby and, God, will she be
John Cougar’s singing “Jack and Diane” in your head
Her smile says you’re stupid
You misinterpreted, though,
four years later, you stumble onto her Internet
call girl profile
now you understand, all the come 'n go trucks
be nice to go over and spend a quarter, but
it’s such a different neighborhood, now
You don’t feel as safe as you used to

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