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In the darkness of this cabinet, you will see that around here life doesn't come full circle,
It just comes in a loose square.
We were packed on corners like shipments we siphoned into the veins of our family.
Succumbed by desperation.
Our ambitions were dry like lips scrubbed bloody by the roughly untrimmed fingernails of Chicago winds.
Security is exchanged for threads of clothes that flag over my ailments like the cheapness of sheets thinner than the patience of poverty.

I moved often.
From house to house.
same socks, frozen to my feet with the reach of fungi.
i was controlled by the same hustle.
I belonged to the same family.

A little brother became more than a possibility.

I was 40 drinking 40s.
I was holding drugs until my arms were nervous with exhaustion.
So much that I couldnt even hold a decent job.

Until I was shot.
Marked by a conscience.
Tattooed with holes deeper than the waves of a responsibility purged from the same wounds I once rested in.
I had to be a role model.

Description
In the darkness of this cabinet, you will see that around here life doesn't come full circle,
It just comes in a loose square.
We were packed on corners like shipments we siphoned into the veins of our family.
Succumbed by desperation.
Our ambitions were dry like lips scrubbed bloody by the roughly untrimmed fingernails of Chicago winds.
Security is exchanged for threads of clothes that flag over my ailments like the cheapness of sheets thinner than the patience of poverty.

I moved often.
From house to house.
same socks, frozen to my feet with the reach of fungi.
i was controlled by the same hustle.
I belonged to the same family.

A little brother became more than a possibility.

I was 40 drinking 40s.
I was holding drugs until my arms were nervous with exhaustion.
So much that I couldnt even hold a decent job.

Until I was shot.
Marked by a conscience.
Tattooed with holes deeper than the waves of a responsibility purged from the same wounds I once rested in.
I had to be a role model.