Date:         Tue, 30 May 1995 17:07:05 EDT
From: word wrestler <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      SUB, POETRY: Breathstrokes
Comments: To: Ringside <writers@mitvma.mit.edu>

sigh.  this is an odd one.  comments?

tink
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                             Breathstrokes
                       copyright 1995 Mike Barker

(inconfusion pause
search

expiration, inspiration, expiration
breathe words

in and      out
in and out   and...
          inout

deep breath
                   gropegropegropegropegrope
deep words?

again and again and again

I say! I say!  I say!  You...

say?

oh.  climactic point.

a pause, a pause.
exconfusion)
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