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skate park confessional
Addled rattled crunched smoked
Broken stoned faltered tamped
Sundown uptown, they're downtown they're
High in the skate park
They're dusting up their hearts to hearts
They're breathing the smoke of their daddies, their girlfriends
Hissing poison through their nicotine teeth
Lotus dreams kept them tied to the end
Of the world, downtown, where razors and lighters write the language of burnouts on their arms
Downtown, folded clamored clamped
They're bound by new bodies from the open factories of theirs, new animals bulky inside the glass bones of girls dewy
Clutching, they're clutching
Each other in the thrumming dark
Dusting up their hearts to hearts
The vomit they're laughing to pour from the ruins of themselves into, behind trees
They're ancient
They have the eyes, the cheekbones, the teeth of the animals before them
The future left in paw prints through grass and tar
And they bare those teeth
Slouch downtown to breed their sickness
jesus.
they're just little kids

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