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Still, I Can’t Breathe

Still, I Can’t Breathe

My feet up on a table, hands writing my life. Papers, sticky notes, cheap street art. All overlapping each other, hanging from a wall so plain and white. Receipts everywhere; months old, years old — what’s the point of holding on? Organizing them is futile, I long gave up. Paper towel wasted, not my doing. ‘Til Monday I’ll be buried in trash, when the truck comes around.

Outdated tapes hiding years of better days and people by whom I was betrayed. Standing there begging to be watched, yet another pile of shit I don’t give. A dried bamboo plant wonders why I let it died. But we’re all dying over here, maybe not as visibly as its leaves.

There’s no more room on the coffee table; my bags and other random objects have taken over. I used to be better at putting these away. It’s the end. Can’t find room, can’t find time, can’t find motivation, can’t find…life.

It’d be as simple as living, if only I remembered what that’s like.

Computers with connection. Not one, not two, not three; about six. The great escape is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Walls, more than four. The ceiling is high. Functioning doors from July to July. Big windows welcoming the air, not too far from the ground if running away I should try. Still, I can’t breathe, can’t find a way to say goodbye.

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