maybe someday i’ll keep this up

here, the ides of march go we,
back to texas happily.
freshly marked and freshly shorn,
fresh extensions one adorns.
we saw friends and my parents,
and two apartments with high rents.
we did see one that we could take,
but my job is first at stake.
should we take a big pay raise?
but risk my wife's painful malaise?
the cold cuts through too [...]

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