Pseudo-Love (April 5th, 2019)

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A man can give a woman anything

If she gives up everything

"That's just toxic!"

Let's be real ladies, okay

His face is the one posted-

-posted on America's Hottest!

Though in five years we'll see him on Dateline

He had a pretty little wife, after sleeping with four or five others-

If she'd face the music sooner-

She'd admit to us that he beat her in his drunken stupor

But he cradled her battered limbs in their king-sized bed

So he couldn't be that bad, right?

Her family, who mocked her for marrying young, whispers behind closed doors

Aloud her family wonders when grandchildren will appear

She replies, "I found out I'm infertile" and fake cries

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