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the smell of ozone at the aquarium

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The heat makes the air crackle like dried leaves in your lungs as we stare at aquamarine turning to midnight blue. I wonder why water looks blue, if it's the sky reflecting off the water or the water reflecting off the sky.

Tell me, do you think it was the chicken or the egg that came first?

The ripples reflected on your face are distorted by the sheen of sweat and your snow cone melts slowly in my hand. Drip.Drop. Water both evaporates and condenses, constantly in flux.

The ice caps are melting slowly, but not always, sometimes they break themselves apart.

Your eyes linger- a puffer fish, a yellow green eel- as I push you past each tank with their signs showing off the life inside. I wonder what you see in them with your body full of limitations, covered in fine print. I wonder what they think of us with lives measured by the volume of water held in a tank.

There are 16,928 endangered species. 905 have gone extinct.
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NEOSPAWNSOL's avatar
I was just wondering around looking at poems and wondered onto this one...its beautiful. The begging is the most capturing.