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Published: 2009-07-08 02:45:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 140; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 1
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Description Now that I’ve fallen for you, I feel worse than I did before.


You entertain me and entangle me in
a thread of ongoing smiles and wrongly delivered hello’s.

Would you say that I am the thousandth victim
waiting in line to pay?
I’ve heard plastic lures are so much better than
live bait.

Hook, line and
sink her.

Until missing gills forget the proper use of oxygen.
And sober limbs remain numb. Flailing and
hanging beneath the ventilated surface like a fish out of water
under water.

My dazed expression should explain to you
my disconcerted fate.
I float to the bottom of the deep, mildly at ease;
desolate questions scar my sight.

I’m not sure what happened, really.
Six seconds after I was submerged in your watery eyes
my chance of escaping disintegrated in your palm.


I gave up breathing thirty six hours ago.
Don’t you want me now?
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Comments: 7

GlitteringMoondust [2009-07-08 04:25:13 +0000 UTC]

amazing work.
i like hook, line, and sink her.
clever.

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notsovulnerable In reply to GlitteringMoondust [2009-07-08 05:51:50 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I especially love that line. That's the part I built the whole poem around, actually.

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GlitteringMoondust In reply to notsovulnerable [2009-07-08 05:53:30 +0000 UTC]

really? : ] it's genius.

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notsovulnerable In reply to GlitteringMoondust [2009-07-08 20:05:59 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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TerryTerryTerry [2009-07-08 03:10:38 +0000 UTC]

Don't apologize. It happens to us all.

Beautifully written, I love how you likened it to fishing.

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notsovulnerable In reply to TerryTerryTerry [2009-07-08 03:16:01 +0000 UTC]

I guess you're right. Thank you so much.

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TerryTerryTerry In reply to notsovulnerable [2009-07-08 03:19:41 +0000 UTC]

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