I could eat contempt / wrap it with lament / file it tax exempt / yell “god damnit” / my brain will forget / I haven’t cared yet \ 

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Searching for you in typeface / underlines / and heartbreak / happiness is our stake / a gamble we should take \ 

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A thousand miles from nowhere / I want to go there / ask God there’s hope where \ 

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