Is everything really built on breathing? Poem by Claudia Gabler

Is everything really built on breathing? And what all
remains unspoken between you and the earth?
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Look, it's not just fun and games
with completion.
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Now yet another second has past
in which you haven't written a poem.
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Look how the people talk.
How things talk.
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The artificiality already sparkles
and robs you one star or another.
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That you wanted to reach for
when the balconies are freshly painted.