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your jokes aren't funny

January 29, 2010
By Wallflower PLATINUM, Portland, Oregon
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Wallflower PLATINUM, Portland, Oregon
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If you aren't happy alone then you're not going to be happy with anyone else.

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this is not a game
there are no takebacks
we mask our cruelties in kiddings.
you can't expect my guard to go down
we use the same strategy
each joke holds some truth
and i think they know it
it tears us apart but at the same time
it's the only thing holding us together

© Simon I., Lansing, NY

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