• Vol. 07
  • Chapter 09
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Choking

Infected
fighting for breath
against an enemy
blind, invisible,
indifferent
that pushes me to exhaustion
with each contested
inhalation
I think of all
lost in the battle
against an enemy
neither blind nor invisible
but there for every camera
and every witness to record
enforcing hate
with the weight of every knee
on the throat
of one more black life
unable to escape
repeating
I can’t breathe
I can’t breathe
I can’t breathe

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