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Advice from an empty bottle (2)

They cling,

they dive.

Sometimes they rise to the top.

They ****

they blow.

Sometimes they get lucky.

 

At the end of the day

our fight isn't worth it.

We press on

against nothing.

We try and make sense of it,

but that is as much of a waste of time

as wasting time.

 

You can keep telling yourself

that you're something else;

progressing further.

I used to do that.

I was wrong.

You will die just like me,

and I will die just like you.

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Oct 10, 2009
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