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[aid] => mick
[title] => The Fly
[time] => 2004-08-03 23:29:57
[hometext] => A poem about the life and death of a fly, better than it sounds
[bodytext] => In a Mexican park In the Mexican dark Flies a tiny little insect It weaves in an out It weaves out and in And the world watches its splendor Flying through the air No burdens to bear It flies without a worry It sees a giant statue A statue of a man And the fly begins to wonder if it is in a foreign land It flies around the head And finds the man is dead The fly begins to wonder But as it begins its thinking It finds that it is sinking It has landed in a pool of water down below And all the thoughts it wondered He finds they have started to wander He fights for his survival For he has no chance of revival Who would happen to walk by Who would save a filthy fly There is nothing it can do but die But it continues to bravely struggle It fights the water all night through It is the only thing it knows to do But the world seems blind to its horror At last the fight it seems to cease The fly has been given peace And sinks to the bottom [comments] => 3 [counter] => 220 [topic] => 27 [informant] => poet_of_anger [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 4 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 0 [associated] => [topicname] => NaturePoetry )
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