after too many days i find my self standing again i do not watch but listen to my breath in my nose through my head throat, chest, belly what must be added what must be taken away just this breath this long history of days of me added in the pans banging the clock ticking the fan rattling in the kitchen with the pans the wind the car that comes boomboombumping and thumping down the street vibrating the window i breathe i cradle the center i hold it and becomes a palpable thing in my hands the holding of holding it is cradle one last i breathe i hear and feel a snap in the back tension going out of the spine i see a bird black? starling? i wonder if my timer will work this time and diingngngngngng i am done and i laugh at the fact of this occurance of sights and sounds silly ornaments on a silly frame what is added what is taken away and i have to laugh at the fact that i laugh at this fact ...inspired by mark's irony... ...puttin' the Po' in NaPoWriMo...
what is added, what is taken away
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