Simple Breath

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Simple Breath

I clench sometimes
forever on the lookout 
for a homophobic smear,
that sullen thing I was trained to be.

Still, I dare and dare again,
to kiss you freely in public,
and rework my nervous system 
till I am born again,

till my inner surveillance, 
my hypervigilant suffering 

grips tightly, then -- relaxes,
grips tightly, then -- relaxes,

relaxes,

and muscle tendon
learns 

to melt
into simple breath. 

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