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pray tell

John Sweet

mass graves for the children then
raped the women and this
was the future

this is the ocean

bottomless and frozen and so
wherever you are
you’re fucked

wherever you’re going is a mistake

gotta laugh at the pain or it
swallows you and
you gotta learn to interpret your dreams

your father is god
no matter how much you hate him

your children can never save you

they run away while you sleep,
send you postcards from golgotha or
from beneath the gritty soil outside
the factories of juarez, and
all pain is someone else’s humor

all dogs will promise you the
kingdom, but all of them lie

it costs me nothing to
quench my thirst with your tears

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