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Without Regard

Without Regard

She sashays like she knows something

Like she knows nothing

About how things got this way

Like nothing has anything to do

With everything

She feels objectified by

Life

Which made her this way

And neglected by whoever should have cared 

Unsatisfied

Unappreciated

She’s got those walking blues

Like walking pneumonia

Contagious

She spreads ...

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J. Otis Powell‽self-determinationwalking blueswalking pneumonia

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