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Created on: June 19, 2008
Urban Reef
Twixt sky-scraper reefs
Flows an urban sea
Schools of flesh
Colorful and drab
Oil and water
Flotsam and jetsam
Eaters and eaten
Bottom feeders
Species older than time
Oil and water
Flotsam and jetsam
Cleaner fish, bottom feeders
Dolphins and groupers
Make way for sharks, fly from sharks
Oil and water
Flotsam and jetsam
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