Long Inhaler Poems

*last winter break*

I woke up abruptly, my chest gripped and tight. My face felt hot but my arms stung as if frostbitten. I gasped for air that wouldn’t come, as if I had a plastic...

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Let no one despise your youth
May all disciples tell you the truth 
In Word,
Not just the first, second, or third, let your thoughts be heard
And your feelings unstirred
Your heart Misguided and Misheard
Let no lesson go...

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Georgie

His was a pudgy boyish countenance,
With rounded river eyes and an Alfalfa smile.
He wheezed like a sick tern with repeated asthma attacks, 
Playing hard at the various outdoor games and chases,
Of our fleeting childhood years...

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I feel like an Episcopal priest before losing his faith, 
a traffic accident thrown in his face, renouncing 
my faith even though my younger brother believes 
I'm more than just a human being, I'm sort of a saint 
without...

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Yesterday Richard inspired me to write this update. Thank you Richard. 

To Be More

3 days of this virus, feels like 3 weeks
Every hour a battle, as minutes flit by
Extreme cycles of hot and cold, ongoing
Losing...

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See who I ‘am? Don’t you even know who I ‘am? Don’t fake 

like you don’t know me, you’ve seen me Before…I’m sure you 

have. The sisters all be hating on a fine sister like...

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INVISIBLE

       I am invisible, how to detect?
       Me, essential in life to direct.
       Life will grow and...

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The Dodgers are in LA.
How are you boys doing today?
The Giants moved to Frisco.
Is that something you did not know?
There is many a familiar face.
I have spent six years in this place.
Where do the police...

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TO THE NOSE THAT KNOW

Whilst we sat beneath the mistletoe
Rejoicing at the birth of new year's first child
He came with a vengeance, covered in brown dust 
Yet, chilly like white ice 
He said he came...

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HELLO! I AM INVISIBLE

   Hello! I am invisible, how to detect?
   Essential is me on process of life to direct.
   Life will grow and flow only if I protect.
...

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(The Torre Vela is a prominent castle tower
at the "prow" of the Alhambra Palace, and
dominates the Spanish city of Granada.)

My lame-ass lips can't even draw 
McDonalds milkshake through a straw: 
and if I must 
run...

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Asthma

A dumbfounding struggle for what is plenty in the air,
The shortest of unsure breaths drawing,
The hesitant oxygen inwardly cursing;
A judging of the whole affair unfair.

My trachea thinking of its resignation letter,
Worsening the picture of Seeker...

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(Torre Vela = prominent tower, part of
the Alhambra palace, Granada, Spain)

My lame-ass lips can't even draw 
McDonalds milkshake through a straw: 
and if I must 
run for the bus, 
I take an oxygen inhaler. 
You...

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Sometimes I get nostalgia attacks
Like asthma attacks 
But worse
Because I have no inhaler for this
It contracts and expands my lungs into painful convulsions
Casualties of breath as I reminisce of the times before
Before I knew of...

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I am totally invisible to you.
You have no idea who I am.
Because I'm wearing an old woman body,
but it's a joke because
I'm a 9-year-old-boy.

My husband knows me better than anyone.
Did you use your inhaler?
Uh-huh.
You did...

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Meanest Bouncer of visiting oxygen
Like a scarf of coarsest jean,
Ever keeping it and the nostrils at arm’s length,
Displaying its suffocating strength.

Oxygen keeps loitering at the fringes of the nasal chambers,
For as long as Septembers are...

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If you think Batman is tough, you should meet his Gran.
She is nail-tough, agreed Leroy, Tony, Jack and Stan.
You can’t get anything past her, she has an evil eye.
This was added to the conversation by...

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DOCTOR!DOCTOR!I DON'T WANT TO DIE
IS THERE ANY TECHNIQUE THAT YOU COULD APPLY?
I FEEL LIKE I'M SUDDENLY NEAR DEATH,
LIKE SOMETHING HAS COME AND TAKEN MY BREATH
NO WEALTH,NO FORTUNE,NO JEWELS,OR NO FAME
COULD EVER MEASURE THE DEPTHS OF...

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Shelly is all decked out for her first date.
Fifteen and nervous, pretty but shy.
The boy’s parents pick her up.
He is in the front seat with her dad.
She climbs in to the back with his mother.

Now...

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Parents could contact Director
Or him skip for The Inspector,
A Child Deviant for Hot Iron,
His strokes like African lion...

Assignment once in a long while;
Things that simply promote his style
But how does he go that much length:
An...

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In the sometimes so gloomy mornings
I think of you
Outside shrouds of water drape themselves
Around formless people who hurry
with their umbrellas, incomplete rooms
that offer only transitory shelter.
I think of you
You, to my unseeing eyes, so warm,
so...

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For more than forty years my pistol 
And - trust - me - in the dark like a pistol,
Sadly competing with my loved Christ,
Mostly after quaffed Stout cruelly iced!

Years back wore the look of Machine...

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Her inhaler is not exorbitant
But should it count much that she's The Buoyant?
Why the breathless condition keep constant?
Black smoke from her kitchen Great Irritant!

Six in the morning the cursed urge itching
And Madam Irene must see...

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Done it once, and done it twice. Done it simple, and done it nice.
Done it a thousand times today. She is called breathing, and she don’t play.
Done it once and done it twice. If you’re...

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Show me again and again and again
one more time please.
Please do not give up; do not assume that I know
even if you think I have been shown.

I really need to figure out how to
use this...

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