America Would Have You Believe Skinny

You thought your rights were guaranteed and just for you 

Embuste 

America

Would

Have

Embuste

You

Believe

Pero

Embuste

You thought your rights were guaranteed and just for you 

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The Skinny form was created by Truth Thomas

false moves

I've been you before,

been the skinned knees,

the road rash - 

the aftermath of

distraction.

a misstep

mid-air.

excluded

but invited

arriving only as

sticky evidence

of where someone

lost control.

been a closed heart

performing

an open one.