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Published: 2010-09-25 18:38:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 96; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 1
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Description We're going to skip the formalities,
and use few metaphors.

There's a girl and it's kinda easy to make her cry.
She breaks down a lot over small things and
it seems to be getting worse.
She's afraid it's one of those
issues that develops later in life.

There's a girl and it's kinda easy to make her cry,
but it's a rare thing to actually see.
When she feels her eyes getting glassy
she runs for the shower,
because there,no one bothers her
and they don't know she's breaking.

One day she plugged the tub
and lay with her head resting beneath the faucet.
She watched the water rise, now cold.
She lay while it covered her nose
and it filled half her mouth.
She could hear a roaring sound
echoing from the porcelain,
traveling through the pipes.
Then, she heard her sister on the stairs.
So she unplugged it and watched the water recede.

She has stepped on the lip of the tub
one hand against the wall the other
holding the neck of the shower head.
she's pulled herself up,putting her other foot
on the little shelf you put bar soap on.
She's balanced and put her forehead
on the face of it;turned her face into it
and breathed in the water.
And then she stepped down,
turned the water off,
got out,
dried off,
got dressed,
and walked out.


there's a girl and she is me.
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Comments: 7

toxic-nebulae [2010-09-26 15:57:55 +0000 UTC]

this is incredible.
but in the last stanza, I think "breather" is supposed to be "breathed".

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smkoehl In reply to toxic-nebulae [2010-09-26 16:05:50 +0000 UTC]

haha,yeah,thanks,I didn't catch that

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toxic-nebulae In reply to smkoehl [2010-09-26 18:33:58 +0000 UTC]

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x-Mercy-Dimwit-x [2010-09-25 20:00:33 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful.

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smkoehl In reply to x-Mercy-Dimwit-x [2010-09-25 20:01:09 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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x-Mercy-Dimwit-x In reply to smkoehl [2010-09-26 14:39:20 +0000 UTC]

anytime.

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smkoehl In reply to x-Mercy-Dimwit-x [2010-09-26 16:05:59 +0000 UTC]

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