Long Respirator Poems

have you not heard me?

borne upon the air at dusk, dancing ... I have whispered you in a million voices
    still, you descry not my utterance? Listen, yet, for all is precious...

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I never got why you always
Ate the red pink color out 
The Sherbet ice cream

It was like excavation
How you removed all the cherry
Without even affecting the other colors

Leaving the orange and the vanilla
Neatly for others
Who...

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The doctors and nurses in the Emergency Room prepared themselves for the 
longest night of the year – New Year’s Eve going into New Years day.

As morbid as it may be, they even had a...

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Seeing others doing harmful things,
excessively drinking and using hard drugs,
I say this road is the wisest one
a very prudent individual could ever take, 
hoping that nobody will lay flowers 
on that spot, where a horrible...

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Dear God,
    Why do you mock me so? 
my Mother is hooked up to some respirator,
dying.
My father is hooked up on heroine,
crying.

And you find it amusing to let me watch
this charade of, what is...

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The trackmarked pain on the televisions face raining out and cocooning his grave was not a
very good advertisement for reincarnation Wake up at last near the worlds end crescent in
fetal shape symptomatic riding electric spasms...

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I was sitting in a white room at a table, on a chair
My mind was kind of fuzzy; I wasn’t sure how I got there
I was dressed in a white robe with white slippers on...

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Tears from the eyes
                               ...

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written 7.28,17

"I Didn't Die"
by:  Eric L. Boddie

Now I admit that I still have a slight case of amnesia
Because I had a slight heat stroke that triggered me to have seizures

And I spent 8 days...

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People walk by me
Occasionally pausing to stare
At something that will never be theirs
Smiling heart shaped lips
Almond eyes and I swear to longevity 
These will outlast everything
Turning my head and I eavesdrop 
I fall in love...

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"Give me a respirator, give me a respirator
please BP man give me a respirator."

BP man looked in yonder sea, he turned his head -said unto me:
"No fishing man, the air is clean, theres nothing wrong,
get...

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When a person dies so young, I have to ask why.
I still miss you as each day passes by.
When my brother told me how sick you were, he told me face to face.
He didn't want...

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AT FIRST GLANCE

At first glance
I was laughing 
at the news story,
a chimp with 
the name of my ex,
rips the face off of a lady
and almost a year later the
former owner of the chimp dies
 
But...

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Finding selflessness serving the good of the greater
The mission, leaving all better, a little more sound
A starseed, a lightworker; a humanity relator

I'm drawn to those whose emotions need a respirator
By listening; I lift shouldered weights...

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I beg to differ on your point of view 
when spirits want to talk, they don't ask you 
they enter only hearts with portal gape 
and no I don't permit, recorder -tapes

She was a mother...

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I was devastated when I learned that you wouldn't make it.
When it came to my heart, your demise sure did break it.
You died 1096 days ago in 2013.
It was the worst year that I've seen.
When...

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She received flowers today
from her husband the radio Dee Jay,
they had their first dispute last night
cruel words spoken in this mis-matched fight.
Yet all is forgiven he didn’t mean it at all
the flowers he sent her,...

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I had to make a decision that nearly destroyed me.
The decision was painful and it was Tragic Irony.
Mom gave me life and I had to make the decision that ended hers.
She was one of the...

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Since you died, this is the second Mother's Day that has come around.
Since March of 2013, peace and tranquility aren't things that I've found. 
You were one of the greatest mothers who ever lived.
You constantly...

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Automated Daily Warning
Satellite Sentinel One-Niner-Three
Geo synchronous orbit
Pacific-Med-Atlantic contiguous sea
Sunspot activity forecast
Will deplete Ozone layer more 
Than level originally forecast
On our bulletin before
Sunblocker max level needed
Forecast UVstrong clear skies
Max density protection recommended
For exposed human eyes
Contaminate Pollution...

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The Iron Lung

Haunting in the shadows from the Fifties' years
turning up for unexpected shock,
why does it recapture all my hidden fears,
whether having known its ways or not?

Panic pulsates deeply in the iron lung,
phobia that swells...

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You die alone, barred from family,
try to imagine how it must feel.
You're attached to a respirator,
and air’s being forced into your lungs.

Try to imagine how it must feel,
to never see your loved ones again.
And air’s...

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Quick clay
A dog sent in
Looking for survivors
Given the last hug?
Hunting for people
Silent in quick clay

In a delivery room
She was real and she was perfect
Stillborn
A song played in the room next door
Dobie Gray – Drift away
No...

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I am done screaming for help
Long time broken out of my shell
Only to face off with hell
I've got nothing more to sell
Nothing to lose
Nothing to prove
Man, it is so high up here
Fear of heights is...

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Went to the hospital 
Visiting elderly
One in ICU...sedated
Respirator loudly

Running providing life
Life hovering between
This world and another that is
Invisible not seen

Just a touch was all I
Could give and a whispered 
Prayer for her recovery
Left feeling that...

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