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Like a can of stale sardines i lie flat and stranded, denying to myself that i'm no longer living but just a piece of dead meat. I try very hard to imagine the tin can as a time machine that returns me to those happy times when you and i believed in eternity. Now i'm brought back to the reality that the meaning of eternity is being soaked in a pool of sour preservatives. But I'm sour, not because of the liquid; I'm sour because you aren't with me.
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Nov 13, 2011
Nov 13, 2011 at 12:22 PM UTC
Canned Sardines
Like a can of stale sardines i lie flat and stranded, denying to myself that i'm no longer living but just a piece of dead meat. I try very hard to imagine the tin can as a time machine that returns me to those happy times when you and i believed in eternity. Now i'm brought back to the reality that the meaning of eternity is being soaked in a pool of sour preservatives. But I'm sour, not because of the liquid; I'm sour because you aren't with me.
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Singaporean
Nov 13, 2011
Nov 13, 2011 at 12:22 PM UTC
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