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Triskaidekaphobia
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In a state of disrepair...

0 posted 2007-02-14 11:49 AM




Wondering every thirty seconds
just when every love story
became a tragic comedy
with some sinister subplot
that doesn't really mean a thing

Like the life story of a goldfish
swimming round and round
again until its feeling dizzy
and is running out of time

Musing every thirty seconds
about the nature of a bowl

I wouldn't know
I couldn't say
If goldfish feel at all
still I'd think they feel the fool

Just musing every thirty seconds
about everything they think they know
when they've never seen the outer side
of the curve of their little bowl

There's nothing I can do
but swim from right to left
pretending I couldn't care less
and wondering why a word stings

I couldn't breathe outside a bowl
and I wouldn't want to know
what the other goldfish feel

"They will plunder all your dreams
And take away your teddy bear... "
gODHEAD

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