CUt & MiX

Cut & Mix
Cut & Mix
My whole
Life
Has been
About cut & mix

My great grandfather
Cut & mix
From India
Cut & mix
Marry my
great grandmother
Cut & mix
Cut & mix
My grand mother
Cut & mix
Father
Cut & mix
The product
Cut & mix
Of Corsica
Cut & mix
& Africa
cut & mix
my whole
life
has been
about
cut & mix
my great grandmother
cut & mix
only liked men
cut & mix
from
Africa
Cut & mix
She had
Cut & mix
7 husbands
cut & mix
although
cut & mix
not all
cut & mix
at the same
cut & mix
time…

my grandfather
cut & mix
Portuguese
Cut & mix
Africa
Cut & mix
India
Cut & mix
My whole life
Cut & mix
Has been
Cut & mix

Rum & coke
Cut & mix
Trinidad
Cut & mix
Double-dutch
Cut & mix
Brooklyn
Cut & mix
My whole life
Cut & mix
Has been
Cut & mix

& now
cut & mix
a son
cut & mix
from Trinidad
ctu & mix
Africa
Cut & mix
India
Cut & mix
Corsica
Cut & mix
Portugal
Cut & mix
Yeah my whole life
Is still
Cut & mix.

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