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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Living

Everyday brings
a new death
in three words
give or take
Some days I drown
as if life were a flood
and I wore shackles
Some days bring suffocation
weights aimed to press
my chest into itself
And as long as
I am dying
I find it hard
to live

(2013)

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