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Guppy Love

Post by Lightning Rod » October 2nd, 2007, 11:56 pm

Guppy Love

(I wrote this for doreen, but she'll deny it. It sounds too much like The Captain and Tenille.)

my gills ache from sucking air
it's too thin a liquid
this fish is tortured by the atmosphere
flipping on dry land, he drowns in oxygen

my curling scales need your water
I have no eyelids
I feel my membranes stiffen and parch
no time for evolution.

I dance the desperate can-can
dirt spasms wish for mud custard
the moisture reflex takes over
I yearn and gasp for aqua fathoms.

you dance in the air that smothers me
does love evaporate like a stagnant pond?
thunder promises me a breath of rain
will I ever swim again?

I long for your depths like a thirsty man
I beg for your bouyancy and silky friction
a hopeless junky for your wetness
save me with your sweat and tears.

Even your humid breath can sustain me
I'll lick the condensation from your lenses
or let me swim in your veins, inhale your blood
your heart is an aquarium, I'm a guppy for your love.
"These words don't make me a poet, these Eyes make me a poet."

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Post by judih » October 3rd, 2007, 1:10 am

a mad declaration of love
somehow, this makes me cry

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Re: Guppy Love

Post by joel » October 3rd, 2007, 11:14 am

Lightning Rod wrote:Guppy Love

(I wrote this for doreen, but she'll deny it. It sounds too much like The Captain and Tenille.)

your heart is an aquarium, I'm a guppy for your love.
ditto to judih. well done, lrod.

sounds like the real kind of love-- love that keeps us together.
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Post by Arcadia » October 3rd, 2007, 2:09 pm

It sounds too much like The Captain and Tenille do you tell also this to her? :shock:

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Post by Lightning Rod » October 3rd, 2007, 3:02 pm

ok, I couldn't help it
I've always had this massive crush on toni tenille
one of my other unrequited loves

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