It's barely spoken of,
the common need and suffering
that's like trying to contain
a squirming toad,
knowing if you succeed for too long,
it will die.
The feeling when breathing
frosts the windshield of a car
and you are driven
to write your lover's name
and see through it.
It's the sensation that questions
whether or not we should unearth
dead civilizations,
perform autopsies,
or allow the slack mouths of the dead
to be stuffed and sewn.
Do we need to live on,
everlasting, the wildlife
coming up
through our bones?
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