take this lung
I don’t need it
it’s no good to me now
it won’t work
no matter how I squeeze it
no air in or out.
it wheezes and pings
it crackles and sings
it does everything but breathe for me.
and it’s sister next door isn’t much better
wheezing louder than my husband can stand
keeping him up at night
while I sit up and fight for some little molecule of air.
CO2 laughs in my lungs laughing all the way
at my plight
while that lonely little O2 tries to make its way
to my purple blood yearning to be fiery red.
I want to lie down and go back to bed
to sleep, perchance to breathe.
KES
November 6, 2005
I don’t need it
it’s no good to me now
it won’t work
no matter how I squeeze it
no air in or out.
it wheezes and pings
it crackles and sings
it does everything but breathe for me.
and it’s sister next door isn’t much better
wheezing louder than my husband can stand
keeping him up at night
while I sit up and fight for some little molecule of air.
CO2 laughs in my lungs laughing all the way
at my plight
while that lonely little O2 tries to make its way
to my purple blood yearning to be fiery red.
I want to lie down and go back to bed
to sleep, perchance to breathe.
KES
November 6, 2005
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