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Evolution of the Fish and How It Grew Legs and Achieved Financial Stability

stay inside your house that would be my life. let someone else become a lawyer a teacher a doctor an artist a writer a i am under a blanket. i am inside a television. i hide in your sugar and popcorn. from the outside, we are simple. laughter is not hard. no one suspects a thing. yet within, it is cool and quiet and hollow. utterly empty. the occasional drifting wandering thought waves hello or drags at your flesh. no one will bother you. you will sink, unperturbed to the trenches, the (dregs). and if you are lucky, the fish will come to knock on you and listen. it is dark down here. i don’t mind. i wish you did. i wish you knew. my ears pressure pop and my heart adrenalin pumps and my skin shakes, ice cold hot and i can’t speak, but, oh well. my pride will carry me. i have heard of lantern fish in the deep and sharks that don’t bite. and maybe you don’t have gills after all. maybe, you’ll think, maybe, i’ll go to college.

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Date: 5/7/2016 10:54:00 AM
awesome first poem lauren...linda
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Date: 5/7/2016 2:14:00 AM
Lauren, Nice and wonderful first entry. Welcome to poetry soup. Hope you will enjoy our community. Wish you a fruitful journey ahead.....//:) hugs
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Date: 5/5/2016 11:37:00 PM
haha, so goOd. Stay Cool, Lauren, Welcome to Poetry Soup. It will be a delight to read and become familiar with your poems in the future. As for now, I will greet you with the same smile others passed when I first joined the soup. Wishing you and your poetry the best. I hope you get to meet all the nice poets around here STARTING with me- SKAT :-) Please drop a hello and tell me a little about yourself if you wish. I would like to be your newest poetry soup "FRIEND" Hugs* SKAT
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