Breath
what
you once
accomplished
in
tandem
with
every
other
thing
you did
oxygenating
corpuscles
while
you shopped
or
made a cuppa
or
made love
becomes
the task
eclipsing
all others
the
sustaining
unselfconscious
rhythm
gone —
with
asthma
you
are either
breathing
out
or
breathing in
not
forgetting
for
a second
that
we must
breathe
to live
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