works by william pham, 2005-present

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100x450 - 30 - i think you'd be bitter too

You don't know what it's like, living in a touch tank with twenty other rays. The water is always dirty. If it isn't that asshole Benjamin not cleaning up after himself, then it's the busloads of fifth-graders with their hands covered in melted chocolate and snot and God knows what else. They probably pick their overweight asses before waddling over and molesting us for three minutes while we're just trying to get some goddamn exercise, and then they're off to the stonefish tank. Oh, look at me, I'm so poisonous. Whoop-de-fucking-do.

I need to get the hell out of here.

copyright (c) 2007 by william pham

photo credit (c) 2007 amie t dovinh