Friday, November 27, 2015

Claustrophobia


Throat constricts
cutting off the last breath
In the hot smelly room
with closed doors

Too many bodies
mingling
cigarettes puffing
filling scarred lungs

Back to back
butt to butt
belly to belly

Beating our heads
against the walls
trying to make sense
of what is happening
on the outside

Windows open
swooshing in fresh air
people sucking
like fish out of water

Thinking the air is
exclusively theirs
oblivious to others
not wanting to share


Sweat still oozes
from the screaming pores
of the paranoid




Sandra L. Hazley

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