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Chapter 1 of 23
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who can make a hoe a house wife

finally for you who really want to know

what it’s like these days for a real reformed hoe

I asked her and well in her younger days

she told me she used to smoke and blaze

she never drank but that was only a phase

it started first, just party for one night

then temptation got harder to fight

she turnt up at every excuse

she'd disappear to just cut loose

then no one prepared her and she got knocked up,

started drinking, got a felony, and in a year, was locked up

depression, oppression, humiliation and self-mutilation

she had to learn how to slow down her roll

or she was directly headed to lie six feet deep in a hole

she stopped drinking, stopped lying, and halted dying

her legs carried her through every rough step

her family watched and her father wept

for decades she broke promises or never kept

drinking or sober, she was left feeling older

she had grown up problems; she was already middle aged

facing adult problems causing her internal rage

she just wanted out of her nightmare's cage

she tried church and was rebuked for being a sinner

by judgmental hypocrites who loved their Sunday dinner

she worked hard and paid back all her debt

she changed, met a nice guy, they practiced safe sex

even though she had been on two train wrecks

he helped her finish getting it back together

season after season they did weather

he managed to do create a happy life

by making a reformed hoe a house wife