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push

my throat
pushes on itself
into a choke
with the weight
and the shame
of knowing
that i could be
somewhere else
farther
so i make noise
just an
underlapped hum
in the crowd
with hope that
maybe one day
it is loud enough
that im pushed
to the front

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