Ramshackle

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those who call me insane don't blame me it's ingrain in brain when it hurts "let me complain" only I can explain and express  the pressure of this migraine "oh the pain" fell off the crate in second grade on the ground is where I laid all the children continued to play inability to think caused me brain injury mama said SSI for me but mama she lied to me had to show the world the other side of me terrorize the whole neighborhood the neighbors couldn't stand the sight of me couldn't control the temper from rising into animosity feeding off the humility this disability became the greatest ability "a lil light" don't expose your kryptonite if you planning to win the fight those who come from the bottom fight dirty those who don't sleep woke early its not mad its mean and surly had friends once they didn't pass the test couldn't make one the best like weight on me had to get it off the chest felt like cardiac arrest folks will put you in the ground turn around and act like their sad to see you down stand in your mama's kitchen eating fried chicken and her famous potato salad it's not a challenge it's a chemical imbalance I got your number it's almost the end of summer hope you got a coat don't catch your death of cold hope you got the yellow sticky note I don't talk I write I wrote the dawg don't bark it bite don't give it bones it choke don't creep at night gone need a lamp at your feet always listening in to who's listening like a crack in a wall it seeps in between I can still hear dearly departed grandmother's outside on the front porch snapping beans the sound  beams like pot liquor in greens "I am insane"