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Breath

“I can’t breathe,” says the emphysema patient in Delhi, inhaling the polluted air.
“I can’t breathe,” says the West Oakland kid with asthma, surrounded by trucks.
“I can’t breathe,” says the Californian every autumn, fleeing noxious smoke from wildfires.
“I can’t breathe,” says each of the 100,000 Covid victims.
“I can’t breathe,” says Eric Garner.
“I can’t breathe,” says George Floyd.
“I can’t breathe,” say the demonstrators being hit with tear gas.

Who took all the good air? Who is killing my brothers and sisters?

It makes me furious.

I feel like choking someone.

Hmmm.

(note to Sara. This is not connected to the prompt)