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Breathing is no longer necessary.

Breathing is no longer necessary.

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Dec 01, 2009
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ONE LAST BREATH BY MARCO YAN 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 09

Heaving my chest for you inside

Tasted of a song born in the eighties.

Your neo soul vapors nullified my nostrils,

Stomped and stopped my intellect

almost my body still to the beat.

You flowed fast-intently repeating you

Inside my lungs made my future

Breaths unnecessary.

now you gone me dominated

by an abrupt four-measure rest

no more cadences

breathing is no longer necessary.

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MARCO YAN

I am a Hong-Kong-born writer mainly inspired by the inconsiderable things in life.  My mission is to earn a bright side for those things and make them fresh to others' eyes. I graduated from the University of Hong Kong with majors in English Studies and Comparative Literature.

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