Danez Smith - acknowledgments

you save me half a bag of skins, the hard parts, my fav, dusted orange with hot
 

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you say we can’t go to the bar cause you’re taking your braids out
i come over, we watch madea while we pull you from you
 

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you make us tacos with the shells i like & you don’t
 

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i get too drunk at the party, you scoop my pizza from the sink with a solo cup, all that red
 

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you, in the morning, bong water grin, wet chin
 

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you, in the lawless dark, laughing like a room of women laugh
at a man who thinks his know...