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Life is a brothel — Ryan Napalatano

D. David Croot has been writing on and off (pretty much continually) for nineteen hundred years. He is no preternatural creature, no real special abilities or heightened desires to speak of, but he’s put in his four-trillion hours and it’s all for you my sweaty precious and sublimely beautiful creatures.
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His mother always stared at
him from the window
Never picked him up from school either
Sometimes he’d have to sprint
through
the authorities just to get home
He was crazy for crazy bones
had them all in gold
traded fifty shiny ones for a gold he did not own
Then changed his mind
He now liked Pokemon cards
peeing himself in class
fighting without provocation
And
dancing to music nobody
could hear
-
One time
His mother shaved the back
of his head
Just
one