My motor skills are failing The pen wobbles in my hand and fights the flow I'm making co2 deposits and having oxygen withdrawals Hazy thoughts like incense smoke expand my skull and coat my brain in a diaphanous fog My heart is a thoroughbred careering for it's life Pleas tease my tongue behind clenched teeth as my eyes brew storms never to cascade Moisture develops in my shivering palms though my throat has become a desolate desert scape