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How can I breathe at a time like this,<\/p>\n
when the air is full of the smoke<\/p>\n
of burning tires, burning lives?<\/p>\n
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Just breathe<\/em>, the wind insisted.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Easy for you to say, if the weight of injustice<\/p>\n
is not wrapped around your throat,<\/p>\n
cutting off all air.<\/p>\n
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I need you to breathe. <\/em><\/p>\nI need you to breathe.<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nDon\u2019t tell me to be calm<\/p>\n
when there are so many reasons<\/p>\n
to be angry, so much cause for despair!<\/p>\n
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I didn\u2019t say to be calm<\/em>, said the wind,<\/p>\nI said to breathe. <\/em><\/p>\nWe\u2019re going to need a lot of air<\/em><\/p>\nto make this hurricane together.<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nby Lynn Ungar<\/p>\n
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12\/4\/14<\/p>\n
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