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a spoonful of sugar actually makes you puke

god carries a honey-soaked stake with my name carved into it,
and his lovers scream at me to stop running;
to let him sink it into my chest, because he loves me.

i actually did eat a spoonful of honey and i almost puked it was so foul

#ReligiousTrauma

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