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Baby breathe

baby breathe your

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breathe, Baby BREATHE

you are pretty        blue you are slowly now quickly dying

tugging and pulling skin over ribs I see

you're working so hard to get air into--

I'm going to have to--

make you breathe

with a thin plastic cylinder in your throat

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You know I have been with others
You understand it but you chose to avert your heart
cheek turned
ears off    you
breathe remembering
my sweetness

I belong to you, I belong to you, I belong to only you now

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Contact, Carl Sagan
Father Palmer Joss to Astronomer Eleanor Arroway

JOSS
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There is rain

There are the things you say

words mingled in wrong tenses so savoring I won't shut myself to them

And the levy

It won't hold

And the rain and the levy

The thrashing tide, your banks

There are your eyes

begging more of me

And the brutishness of fear with its hand over my mouth

and me on its leash and your beauty

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----
love in such a way

adam from my side, i was on yours
you as open roads and maps, you as sky
we met along our cracks paralleling ran
our finger along the coarse
edges of our highways and short cuts
me as filigree, me as rough dark blue sea
your finger along my arm
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