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survive, survive, survive
just to spite the bastards
go on and thrive
in the spoiled earth that you didn't deserve
but the world rarely gives you what you deserve
unless you're born into a class that grades on a curve
if you manage not to die in your crib
survive just to make em all choke on their glib
self-satisfaction

confidence is for psychopaths and
dumbass shiny rich kids
know what you are and who's standing on your neck
]dig your teeth into their ankle, let em know you're not bled dry just yet

when all your hope seems to disappear
\it was never really there
and you can get near as much mileage out of
fighting off the crushing despair

survive, survive, survive
completely out of spite
and if life tastes bitter, and from now on it might
learn to love it, that coppery taste
of your own blood in your mouth
you've taken too many slugs to get out without
spitting out some teeth
try to aim for the other asshole's
cheering gallery

it doesn't get better it just gets less sharp
the points start to wear down after they've hit their mark
again and again and again over the years and you go numb to the attacks
but the pain still sears

and when every single moment that stands out in your mind
is a crushing defeat or just one of the times you tried your hardest
and still didn't even come close
it seems dumb to keep trying, but who said you were smart anyway?

fight on until the last smug fuckers concede
and all the people who told you you were rotten or diseased
stop laughing
then save the last one for yourself
and if it tastes hollow
it's just that your soul already left

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from Ante​-​Anticlimax, released June 5, 2020

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The Great Joe Bivins Orlando, Florida

Eight feet tall if he were an inch! Arms like two great tree trunks with hair like a fiery-brown mane of a lion that'd been kinda sick! Scraggly multicolored beard that granted wishes! Wishes with IRONIC CONSEQUENCES! With a voice like a great grizzly bear if bears were really good singers! Oh I seen him, doncha tell me I didn't see him with Paul Revere ringin' them bells! ... more

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