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[sid] => 98745
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => Cold Bath
[time] => 2005-06-20 15:50:37
[hometext] => -DIRTY WATER-
[bodytext] => Bathe in the water used Think of who you are Reality smites but drifts away again Feel the water wet with comments Bad simulation of human emotion Tear then laugh then shrug The dust of life unused floats around you Smell the dead skin in the liquid cold Your lies are murky here Wash regret Your hair has been soaked with sin Saddened by the temperature of growth Wanting to splash all water out But still and motionless sits an off course pathetic Old soapy film covers hurting toes While the rudeness seeps into the skin Drops of certainty fall From finger tips Look for pity As you lie in pulpy fiction Moisten the face of true record Hands have aged and ached Surrounded in own fluid of self hate Bath of no substance [comments] => 3 [counter] => 179 [topic] => 61 [informant] => Boobiepeach [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => selfstruggles )
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