Jakayla Monay, The Unknown Somebody ft. Robert Patrick Taylor V, photography.

Jakayla Monay, The Unknown Somebody ft. Robert Patrick Taylor V, photography.

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No Children

How young his tear-stained face, crumbling under / the fluorescents. Unbalanced on the stool in front of class. / Dogs have to be trained to fight, conditioned / to violence, like humans. He told us how he trained him

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