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How to Breathe.

It’s a funny sort of thing

the way you breathe inside your head.

The sharp roads that pave your mind;

there are waterfalls that hide being your eyes

waiting to cry out loud.

Just hold your head a little longer

and wait a little farther

before it shatters your smile.

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Aug 5, 2011
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