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Evolution of the Fish and How It Grew Legs and Achieved Financial Stability
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.
Copyright © Lake De | Year Posted 2016
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