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How Fish Become Gods (part 2)

Jazirrah Davis-Carter, november 2025

Drifting in the ocean is all I do
Thinking is all I do
Never acting
Never moving
Never laughing
Just thinking
Thinking of my purpose in life
Thinking of how everyone around me has something to offer
​ While I’m here, just drifting


Not working
Not swimming
Not smiling
Just drifting
Drifting and thinking


My specialties
They’re all I do and all I will ever do
They say nothing in life is permanent, but this definitely is


Forever, all I will do is drift and think
No exploring
No adventure
No happiness


Just drifting and thinking


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Trying to make sense of meaningless existences
Trying to make sense of the jealousy that brews within my soul
Trying, and failing, to be something


To live a life that can be looked upon in the future with grace To live knowing that I was something


Anything
Even if that life is filled with hardship
I just want to do something with the limited time I have on this planet
That’s what thinking does to you


It makes you sad
It makes you angry
It makes you empty


So I will just drift into nothingness 

And think the thoughts of a mere fish

​


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​Jazirrah Davis-Carter

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      • America’s Broken Mirror
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      • written
      • Why I Spend so Much Time on Rooftops
      • I am from trees and flowers in autumn
      • I WONDER
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      • Heartbreak is a massacre.
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      • I Refuse To Cry
      • The Silent Wonders of Time
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      • The Painful Wonders of Space
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      • My Favorite Color Used To Be Pink
      • I'm Not a Writer: The Importance of Being Bad at Things
      • American Circus
      • Freedom Within The Soul
      • Watering Can
      • Are America’s Food Regulations Really Keeping Us Safe?
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      • Art fight Collection
      • 흑인들이 보낸 것입니다 (This Came From Black People)
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      • Petty Games
      • The Diary of A Poet
      • Hatchetfield Trilogy Review
      • Guitar Object Study
      • Thunder
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      • God Bless America
      • Eviscerated
      • Masked
      • Those Girls
      • Why I Follow Jesus
      • The Subjectivity of Creativity: How Wrongful Interpretation is Dangerous
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      • Class of 2013