The Fish in the Drain

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    The Fish in the Drain

    Waves of heat sigh into the trees that breathe out our survival
    that keeps us going in a vicious cycle.
    I open my mouth and pollution leaks out.
    Rotting away, skin stretched across bone cut away into atoms that we drink
    in our plastic cups made from labor and tears
    the the workers leak when they get the notice
    that is sent when they can't afford the rotting house
    that the hobo used to squat in.
    The sky is drinking the ocean and when it cries it back down
    it's clean and new
    like that dirty car I got last month
    to help Global Warming stay on track.
    I'm a helpful person that leaks sweat
    from my pores into the tree's breath around me
    that swallow me in their green embrace.
    The water isn't clean and the fish
    is tossed down the rain to join
    all his crocodile friends that grew up in the slums
    so much like the masses of world.
    I open my mouth and pollution leaks out.

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    If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

    Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.

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