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By Jack Joseph Smith
The Best
When I take my vacent stomach
to the store, I still smile
When a guy things he sees me
eight inches down from my nose,
I don't wish him badly
I got a sweet tooth, so I go
and get my Ronald Regan jelly beans
out of my family's three hundred
year old river yellow canister, You
er
think I don't remember my childhood,
no shame,, the lies that continue,
but I am a good looking country girl,
and I know about shame, others shame,
my shame; no there is shame, real shame
I am down under in America where their
are sections of stars, that actually move
like nations and make structures, they