I have strange ideas.

Not apologizing.

~jrlrock

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You can tell the difference

Between my parents in

The kind of soap they use

For one it's a simple soap

Grapefruit, it says

-green tea, Shea butter-

Not special, there to kill germs

And the other is foam

Aloe Vera and vitamin B

Raspberry, sun-ripened

So you keep sniffing your hands for

Days and weeks and months after

And there's the difference between

Simplicity, ready to live and let live

And the other extravagant

And rather unnecessary

Like the foaming soap on my hands

As I wash up for dinner

And think about life

And the stars

-the soap splatters across the countertop

I smile at the excess and laugh

For it is needless to have so much foam

And yet there is and

I always chose that soap over the other-