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By somethingididntdo

Fri, 17 Jun 2011
  • 752 reads
 

after a weekend
of too much
drinking and
smoking and
dancing and
failing

i feel broken and tired,
the wrong shape
for the hole of this world

and yet
despite the bruises
and the pain in my head

i still feel
like i am
winning

Certificate 12
Poem
somethingididntdo
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