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(Any individual who “has no sympathy” for anyone who intakes their medicines by smoke rather than pill needs to inform themselves on the actual facts of that knee-jerk subject by going to the site’s search bar and asking for “The Sacred smoke.” Or they could just shut up.)

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Recorded Reading (1:51): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qadu3tut34yda87mic89s/what-you-think-you-even-got.wav?rlkey=wbiyt7f9smcrhsze2ej09dxlp&dl=0

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what you think you even got

longtime hardcore room renting
owners of this increasingly
strange house still haven’t realized that after

steaming envelopes open and
then pasting ‘em back smooth they still dry
lumpy later

… you could ask for a mail key,
they might even promise you one, but then

they’d also go from feeling smugly
entitled when they think about you to
chronically uneasy instead, after all

you might be on to them and any

littlest
thing
happens

to their
mail after that
(or they say it did)
an’

it was you

stand there with the phone in their ear
sayin’
don botha packin’
before you leave here
cause i’m on the phone to my
homeys right now sista…

… or, could get a p o box

one hundred percent of my
discretionary month’s income
for the deposit…

hmmm…

maybe first a mattress
some socks
winter’s coming

winter
always seems to be coming
when these moments happen

well…

maybe then jus’
let it go on an’ happen, huh?

what you got worth
respectin’ anyhow

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