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If you were anything other Than what I thought you were, You’d be everything ugly. Because I looked to you As if you woke up the sun each morning, But you only ever blotted it out. You took some frizzled brush With its bristles cut ragged And pointing in all directions And you painted the sky Some slimy, green-black shadow Which reminded me of pond **** Or worse yet It reminded me of the filtration In my fish tank I never got around to cleaning, Oozing yellow pus And clearing any room with its stench, It was so much like you. For just like a soaking, Disgustingly rotten fish tank filter, You maintained the image of beauty, You plucked the sickness And flakes of half eaten food From the sea of this world And built it all up inside of you. So now people gaze With some sort of admiration in their eyes At a tank housing a vibrancy Of life and plants and healthy things That only exist to brighten the day, But little do they know That if you undo this, And unscrew that, You’ll pop right open, Your filthy inner workings exposed, And taint all the good things around you, You’ll leak out into the crystal clarity, Make it hazy and cloudy and You’ll blind all the fish, You’ll **** all the fish If we don’t keep you closed.
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Sep 27, 2015
Sep 27, 2015 at 10:45 PM UTC
You're Nothing But Some Fish Tank Filter
If you were anything other Than what I thought you were, You’d be everything ugly. Because I looked to you As if you woke up the sun each morning, But you only ever blotted it out. You took some frizzled brush With its bristles cut ragged And pointing in all directions And you painted the sky Some slimy, green-black shadow Which reminded me of pond **** Or worse yet It reminded me of the filtration In my fish tank I never got around to cleaning, Oozing yellow pus And clearing any room with its stench, It was so much like you. For just like a soaking, Disgustingly rotten fish tank filter, You maintained the image of beauty, You plucked the sickness And flakes of half eaten food From the sea of this world And built it all up inside of you. So now people gaze With some sort of admiration in their eyes At a tank housing a vibrancy Of life and plants and healthy things That only exist to brighten the day, But little do they know That if you undo this, And unscrew that, You’ll pop right open, Your filthy inner workings exposed, And taint all the good things around you, You’ll leak out into the crystal clarity, Make it hazy and cloudy and You’ll blind all the fish, You’ll **** all the fish If we don’t keep you closed.
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Sep 27, 2015
Sep 27, 2015 at 10:45 PM UTC
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