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Love as Contraband

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Maldevisa
Sep 01, 2025
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Love as Contraband.

Seize it. 

If it were for me to hold, 

you would know my birthday, 

spin me like a lottery ticket

Take these iridescent slippers, my story has no evil, 

fermented er otherwise


They say he smuggles in himself for sumn good

They say he hopped a fence in Jamaica and they shaved his head bald, and brighter than it had been 

And I didn’t know why,…

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