I am standing on a ledge, kinda like this one:
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I'm the X.
On the ledge of Naw.
If it was only Nada. ledge.
But it is.
And that's my whole point:
there is "No" Point.
Go to Ur local park-- U'll find it there, especially-
the point of
no re-turn.
--the X marks the spot.
Once U-
no.
there's know going back naw.
so I jumped of the edge.
and landed here:____
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and found a body-
Zer name was NOTA
Ze looked like this:
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Ze was a talking skeleton
Ze told me to FUCK. OF.
So I got back on the ledge of Naw:___X_
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and wrote the Alphabet in the dirt.
Quick On-the-Road One-Handed Note: The Rumpus for My Birthday
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Learning to write lefty.
And to peck
at the keys like
a poet.
The political consequences of the shift. Minutely felt as they are...
Many thanks to The Rum...
13 years ago
alright, I can't seem to get the format for SOME reason, so just KNOW that this POEM is supposed to be DIFFERENT on the PAGE. -g
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