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Fog Cutter

It’s too late but even now,
through the mist occluding

everything left of your mind,
you can’t stop broadcasting

your desire into the past,
waves of hunger streaming

from your body, nostalgia
emptying your tired lungs

— the familiar suffocation, fire
that after all these years

still hasn’t been choked away.