Listen & Be Heard

Note to Spend Not

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martha cinader
Spendocrat contadik lick 2.3 precariat, a word not heard in the mediacracy that we see. THE precariat poll chariot watch hers the jerky twerky two steppin’ wit scare city tacky ticks scrimping wit scrip sure to go grieving to graveyard shifts to not wish no more for window dressing blessings, a pisstiner view of the do u sea what eye see? look at me run in a fixed race to the very merry go round bend of steel ass fault grist for the mill you will give your life and be told, that you owed it was not a good enough price, to your wife when you die young with an alien in your lungs among your precariat friends swinging low, swinging hard.

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