so, I sat on my stool thinking about poetic things themes analogies metaphors a stream of wandering turning eddying slowing down pooling breaking the edges falling like water does following the easy path I started typing here now just flowing trying to be the water crystal clear and my god ****** mind is more like the mud the water stirs off the banks the bottom brown red blood of earthen liquid koolaid for the fishes mixed tiny animals swirling to an end food for the sole the cod the bluegills in that hole laughing about us humans complicating it all