my skin is made of scales

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breathing is redundant; i am
wingless over the sea.
at any moment i may plunge
into its violent end.

but how i long for liquid release!
am i wrong to swallow silence
like it is my savior?

perhaps, yet i feel nothing in
my innards when i drop
from my airborne chains.

it is as if i never flew.


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