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Feb 2013
I'm hungry
hungry for air

I kiss you
and surface from deep water

a ragged inhale
sputtering exhale

buoyant
breathing

for the first time
in five whole lung-burning minutes

if minutes were years.
Written by
Alex Apples  United States
(United States)   
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     ---, K603 and Alex Apples
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