Losing Water Weight

you don't need water to feel like you're drowning

you just need air and words

you don't need water to feel like you're drowning

you just need tests and numbers and inordinately large sums of money you'll need to pay off after 4 years...forever

you don't need water to feel like you're drowning

just needy hands and ears deafened to the sound of no, the eyes of no, the rigid of no

you don't need water to feel like you're drowning

you're made of gallons of the stuff---63%

...62.8%

...62.6%

...

Author's Note

I know. I know. Using like in this manner is terrible but colloquially, it just sounds better. The syllables fit better also.