Grit: Poems by Silas Denver Melvin
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Read between January 21 - January 24, 2021
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give me purpose more than a footrest or a fetish.
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but he’s got eyes the color of a good question
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asking to be healed but never taking the advice, showing them skinned knees & being given a sad, pinched look in return.
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there’s got to be a remedy for all the you you’re showing me
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i played hopscotch & named my own end.
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a cowboy is all the men you were        afraid of when you were little because you knew you wanted to grow up to be like them & you knew kids like you weren’t supposed to             want to grow up to be cowboys.
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got better at basketball, learned when to say sick or bro or fuck, but what does that mean anyway? which magic eye god is watching me? & how long can i fool her for?