Breathing is no longer necessary.

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.