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'Drowning Fish' by Rudy Francisco
I highly recommend that you watch the actual reading of the poem. Rudy's performance is well worth it.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeizLKeHxKM&ab_channel=ButtonPoetry
frustratinglyneutral
Excellent and powerful. Also thank you for not making this a series of gifs.
Hefelump
Preach brotha. Preach.
2NinjasGlued2Gether
Yeah Depression is bad. We all know that by now. But why did the fish drown? Why was there no oxygen left in the water?
everythingtoo
AverySillyName
Notfunnycommenter
Powerful
KiwiGameDev
Button poetry has lots of great stuff!
TonyPitzacata
Thank you for not giving up. I can’t wait to meet you!
IfIthoughtItWasImportant
Is there ANYBODY out there that can’t identify with this? ANYBODY?
nahlej
HEYimSQUANCHINinHERE
venomlash
You need a hug, amigo?
captaingibbs
Thanks for the thought. Not depressed myself but felt it was a powerful poem I wanted to share. Have a great day!
Willsmileforfood
Truth. In poetry. Speak brother, speak.
RideTheStimutacs
I thought at first that this was the setup for a standup joke, then I thought it was a scientific lecture about water quality. Swerved x2.
Axiluvia
https://projectsemicolon.com/ For those of us who felt like ending the story, but didn't.
masshandler3
You ever read anything that hammers every nail? Yeah, that's this.
Flowerlady0
You are beautiful, my dearest. ?
indoctidiscant
Ask. For. Help. People.
Chainhealer
His books are great.
djalegria89
I’m from Hampton bays New York. The dock master fell asleep at the locks that night. Sometimes you can try as hard as you can bu..
GrimwoodCT
Well, same.
HeartsAndStars
It's bittersweet seeing so many ppl talk about depression on imgur. I don't want anyone to feel like this. But at least I'm not alone??
killdread
Sads together strong, become not-sads. Together.
shimmerkitten
No, you're not. I love you.
DreamingOfDistantShores
As I kick off my second week of TMS treatment, due to none of the antidepressant families of drugs working at all, this art hits home.
reverendleonard
DeborahMullen
Wow.
saysomethingcool
Dude has some quality poetry! "Scars/to the new boyfriend" helped me immensely get through my divorce!
XxTINYxX
I’m going through a breakup and this hit hard. Thanks for the share.
saysomethingcool
captaingibbs
Thanks for the tip! I haven't listened to that one yet. Have a good one!
ScottishRoss
This is exactly why I got "I'm not dead." tattooed on me.
KillerTofu615
Ohhh thank you for the tattoo idea.
TheLovelessHummingbird
I want to get a little fire tattooed . To remind myself that it's still burning and to fight to keep it from going out
RideTheStimutacs
That's going to be awkward eventually. But not now.
ScottishRoss
I'm tempted to hire someone to go to my funeral and make that comment as if they're my arch nemesis.
MrPappagiorgioFromYuma
So eloquently put. The cricket and run-on sentence metaphors. Id love to see more varying pace. But, he projects his emotions so well.
Chainhealer
What is a run-on sentence?
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PenisOfDeath
A sentence that goes on for too long, a sentence that could've been made into two sentences, the type that don't seem to end, like this one.
Chainhealer
Thank you, PenisOfDeath, for your kindness.
OMGamIImguringCorrectly
#4 - "Don't they have a fin and a tale?" "I'm a fucking fish. I'm the basis for ALL tales, at least in measurement."
SoSorryImNotEvenCanadian
If I understand the line right it's basically the "Why are you depressed, you have a family and a good job?"
OMGamIImguringCorrectly
It's tail, not tale. It's not a comprehension thing.
SoSorryImNotEvenCanadian
It is both tale in YOUR quote and his.So the*tale*we tell about ourselves about /what makes us who we are,like a fish with a fin & tale/tail
SoSorryImNotEvenCanadian
doesn't fit makes sense to in either context of a "normal" person being depressed or a fish that has a fin and tail drowning.