more… air… please 2016-05-30

more… air… please…
less… air… please…
more… air… please…
less… air… please…
more… air… please…

What was it?

that torment?

at 30-second intervals?

raise the fan…
lower the fan…

Terminal care

near the end

when it waxed:
fáj!…fáj!…fáj!…

then release

to induced
coma… all
cycles’ end

What was it?

that shrinking
relentless
merciless
epicycle
of torment?

hyperesthesia? hypomnesia?

foreshadowed
months before
at home still

but restless

window… up…
window… down…

my quest (not
about me)
for closure?
foreclosure?

like yearning
unfulfilled
unredeemed

to inter
lost loved ones’
lost remains?

to punish
brutally
those brutes who
hurt our kin?

or is it
dread to be
drawn into
the rise/fall
of that fell
vortex too?

No, still not
about me

it’s of your
agony

that I wail

more… air… please…
less… air… please…

powerless
to foretell
to forestall

yet again
so in vain
just as then…

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