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Poetry: Walk away

by Cyn Bagley

You like to wear
stained wife-beaters
strut around
your shoulders back
your beer-belly forward

You hang the rebel flag
on your porch
And like a pit bull-
untrained, unsocialized-
you terrify your neighbors

What you don't know
I carry a taser
just for you

Walk away -
I don't want to hurt you

yet

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