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Added March 23, 2015
Y’all don’t know nothing ‘bout a scorned, burnt body.
Poem
If Gentrification Was a Broom Then...
Crystal Valentine
Released
2015
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They said I must die. They said that I stole the breath from men, and now they must steal mine.
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None of the merry-go-rounds seem to work anymore. There is a Holiday Inn across from the coroner's office. And Lorenzo Jones is our mayor.