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Everything, while not exactly normal—
or anywhere near what anyone
would consider normal—
is in expert hands.
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All systems, primarily the pulmonary,
which at present takes precedence over
the cardiac and cerebral, due to the
imperative of oxygenation,
are being monitored.
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The expectoration of foreign matter,
most notably vomitus,
from the lungs,
and the loss of efficiency
of oxygen uptake,
are the main foci.
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Dignity is important
but secondary.
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An O is just an O but,
when twinned,
it became everything:
a circle, outside of which,
loured the breathing machine behind
the bed, and behind that,
death.
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Here, now, it is the invisible
nucleus driving it all:
the hissing face mask, increasing
air pressure in centimetres of
water, to reverse collapse.
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It is the reason the lungs
heave, why the heart
squeezes a turbulence into the arteries,
what the brain bends itself
toward, and craves
above all else,
the sine qua non of life
and thought.
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I’m sorry I’m sick I don’t know what happened
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I’m sorry I’m sick
I don’t know
what happened
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i’m sorry i’m
sick i
dont
know what
happened
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orientation: [start Here] [Project Overview]
more poems: [Basement Level Two] [The Ferry and the Tree]
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