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Chemical Imbalance.


Another day on the wing

for the depressed, where vivacious doctors

watch you shuffle from one uneaten meal

to another, as they try to match

the elusive elements that will make you

want to live.

There is a history in the genes

that ignores all love.

When the Times says even shyness is a trait trait (trat)
1. any genetically determined characteristic; also, the condition prevailing in the heterozygous state of a recessive disorder, as the sickle cell trait.

2. a distinctive behavior pattern.
 

that resists conditioning,

what hope is there for those

who back away from life

as if it were a fire?

What hope, when what blazes

above us scorches the clarity of daylight

into the translucent translucent

slightly penetrable by light rays.
 thickness of ozone?

The superfluous su·per·flu·ous  
adj.
Being beyond what is required or sufficient.



[Middle English, from Old French superflueux, from Latin superfluus, from superfluere, to overflow :
 molecule chokes chokes
n.
A manifestation of caisson disease or altitude sickness characterized by dyspnea, coughing, and choking.
 

the air we must breathe to live.
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Author:Murphy, Peter E.
Publication:Commonweal
Article Type:Poem
Date:Apr 7, 2000
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