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Where do the soap suds go when they're washed down the drain? Do they take the dirt and salty sweat down to the sewers, where they won't be missed? Once part of me, my veins and tear ducts, there came a time for us to part, my dirt and I, so the lathery angels kissed my ***** skin and purified in instants a sad story of filth. They wash away in streams of white- ashes from car exhaust and cigarette butts, and lines of black, like lung cancer and smeared makeup and runny lines penned by an unclean hand. I wonder, where do the soap suds go? Do they toss my sins to the sea to be sunk and forsaken, like how they came to cling to me? Am I truly clean, or must the soap suds scrub my soul?
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Jan 27, 2013
Jan 27, 2013 at 8:26 AM UTC
Where do the soap suds go?
Where do the soap suds go when they're washed down the drain? Do they take the dirt and salty sweat down to the sewers, where they won't be missed? Once part of me, my veins and tear ducts, there came a time for us to part, my dirt and I, so the lathery angels kissed my ***** skin and purified in instants a sad story of filth. They wash away in streams of white- ashes from car exhaust and cigarette butts, and lines of black, like lung cancer and smeared makeup and runny lines penned by an unclean hand. I wonder, where do the soap suds go? Do they toss my sins to the sea to be sunk and forsaken, like how they came to cling to me? Am I truly clean, or must the soap suds scrub my soul?
batya-brown
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Jan 27, 2013
Jan 27, 2013 at 8:26 AM UTC
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