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mygeeseourgeeseLearn how to breathe with lungs smoldering;
when the smoke fills every space
and the aftertaste on your tongue lingers for days:
sharp, bitter, and unrelenting.
Learn how to breathe with battery acid in your throat.
Teach yourself how to breathe, if you have to.
Build yourself a new set of lungs, if you have to.
Inhale. (No, you’re not okay.)
Exhale. (Stop thinking you have to be.)
when the smoke fills every space
and the aftertaste on your tongue lingers for days:
sharp, bitter, and unrelenting.
Learn how to breathe with battery acid in your throat.
Teach yourself how to breathe, if you have to.
Build yourself a new set of lungs, if you have to.
Inhale. (No, you’re not okay.)
Exhale. (Stop thinking you have to be.)
