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A Thinker Who Is Sitting On a Toilet Seat

A man sitting on a toilet seat giving strength to his belly, 
though resting his chin on his hand imitating the thinker 
who is sitting in front of the gate of hell with deep thoughts, 
naked on the bottom-half because he couldn't get completely naked 
like the thinker, excretes waste from his body.

Although the waste excreted from his body can be flushed out 
it may alleviate him for a while, the belly still is a bit uneasy 
from the accumulated evil thoughts he kept in his body for years, 
won't be able to flush out. 

That's why the toilet seat starts to crack, 
and because overly abusing the lower body 
the pain creeps up from the bottom of the pit,
and that would be the entrance to the little hell. 

If you see it from another angle, you can say that
the water from the toilet is the water of Lethe, which
will merge into Elysium, and therefore it may be Utopia;
then why squat down on the toilet seat troubled.

It's rather interesting to watch life,
since he is unable to filter the root of the larger hell 
that is lurking somewhere in his body, though, 
he fell into own dodge, condemning the lower belly, 
unable to leave the toilet.

You are a weary wanderer going after a soul that drifted away; 
you are a befogged soul facing hell but turning away from it, 
and anchored the weight of your mind to the hell that is 
on the other side of the world, sniffing a nauseous smell of sulfur 
bubbling up from the bottom of the deep sea. 

You are a wounded charger dashing aimlessly through the midst 
of the smoke of battle and the rain of bullets, therefore, though 
you have a mane you are unable to rise or call the wind, yet carrying 
a self-conceited pedant who favors the use of unfamiliar words and 
invents odd phrases to show-off on your back. 

Why don't you, instead of pacing in hell,
swallow a handful of powder to help loosen the bowels excrete 
the layer after layers of evil thoughts and the heaps of wastes 
accumulated in the body for decades.

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