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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{home is for losers}
  holly day


that guy who used to work with my mom
and lived across the back alley from us
he used to try to touch my ass sometimes, I was 14

and I thought I was so cool because I could turn
an old guy like that on and off like a light bulb
someone with his own house and a car who would
buy me beer and cigarettes any time I wanted

years later, this girl I was living with
brought him home as her date and I
had to spend the next two weeks
listening to him
beg her to touch his penis