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This one time, in Biology

This one time, in biology, we learned how to take samples of fish in water, I don't like fish

And I don't like this feeling of churning up old stuff

You had to scrape the bottom ten times and then take a step and repeat

Going back over the things that happened between me and you is the very same

My stomach churns like the water in that lake

And I'm a little fish getting lost in the chaos, finally to be trapped in the net

And all the dirt, the mess and the muck, that's

Those days, after you left, where everything was dark again

Like that one time, not in biology, I felt that I was stuck down a well, and I was clawing at the mud but I couldn't get out

And in Chemistry, I got some acid on my skin

And I let it burn

Because it was nice to feel something else

Other than the murky, brown mess

And now, I'm that little fish, churned up and confused, waiting for the water to settle so I can swim away

They say you can't swim in the same river twice because every second it's changing

And reliving this and reliving us is a little different each time as it gets further, more distant from the first time

I hope that the little fish keeps swimming til she finds the ocean, I don't think the little fish could cope being churned up and caught just one more time

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