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Barely Breathing

from Eve by Michael McGuire

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A nothingness made palpable by the rake of gravity’s grind, A hopelessness manifested by that excuse you could never find, Standing close enough to the edge to feel the flight, An infinity of suns in a sky of night, The pomp of absurdity struts like a rap star down the street, Am I the only one fool enough to be a bone in this piece of meat, Other beings are paying attention to things that I just can't get to come into focus, And all the reasons they have for living make the sense of hocus-pocus, All I’ve ever wanted was to trust the horse with all of my weight, And to feel like I can fit into the mold of my fate, The burden of Atlas is not the weight of the world but the strength of his back, The will can shatter and dissolve before the way will crack, You lose the ability to care about anything but the ache of the orbit, The flesh of my lover's body is the only thing that doesn’t seem morbid, You feel eternally suspended on the eve of the end, Tense and waiting for the snap of the rod as you fondle the bend.

Barely breathing is just a way of going thru the motions of some life, Feeling like you want to consummate the bride to be and go ahead and make her your wife, But of the winter-harvest and the foreign body spring, I have stared into the trap of the light and I saw: Everything.

April 99

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from Eve, released July 13, 1999

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