every fuckin day
Baby breathe
baby breathe your
dysmetric asynchrony
breathe, Baby BREATHE
you are pretty blue you are slowly now quickly dying
tugging and pulling skin over ribs I see
you're working so hard to get air into--
I'm going to have to--
make you breathe
with a thin plastic cylinder in your throat
your momma cries your daddies bears down fists he
doesn't know how to make this better Baby BREATHE!!!
Drugs/IVs/lines/Drains/Doses/Nebulizers/Orders/Pushes/Meds/STAT now
it's all going downhill
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Baby breathes
they are
In-tu-ba-ted, say it calmly they never understand
Your 6 wk old has a tube in her lungs and a machine doing all the work that your
genes were supposed to do, no you
didn't do anything wrong
this kind of thing happens
to anyone
to anyone
to me
your baby breathes with this machine
i keep him comfortable while he battles
molecules of a virus and he seems to be stable, which is another way of saying okay it's not okay
okay this could happen to anyone
to anyone
to anyone
yes, to you
yes, to me
yes, it happened
to me, it was me
me
tell your family hands clasped so tight
I pray, do you? I barely believe, so family
pray this baby breathes
again
and again