Best Hypertension Poems

The sky looks so much bluer
And the grass a deeper green
the trees are stronger, taller  
As I think I’ve ever seen

The sunshine brighter
Clouds are whiter 
Every step I take is lighter
All around is suddenly alive in every way

Am I high
About to die
Should I scream,...

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Lacing up my zipper-tooth fingers
     once gripped by reciprocal
exaltation, I breeze through familiar
rudiments with firm self-involvement
     in dire contrast with the pink
penance of compassion, until my
eyes swell-up from focusing

on the sea of apathetic decisions all
     heaped upon by conscience
and the nobler elements of my psyche.
Murmurs build urgency with...

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