{"id":1003,"date":"2019-01-04T19:15:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T19:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2019-01-04T19:16:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T19:16:46","slug":"more-air-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/04\/more-air-please\/","title":{"rendered":"more… air\u2026 please 2016-05-30"},"content":{"rendered":"

more… air\u2026 please\u2026
\nless… air\u2026 please\u2026
\nmore… air\u2026 please\u2026
\nless… air\u2026 please\u2026
\nmore… air\u2026 please\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n

What was it?<\/p>\n

that torment?<\/p>\n

at 30-second intervals?<\/p>\n

raise the fan\u2026
\nlower the fan\u2026<\/p>\n

Terminal care<\/p>\n

near the end<\/p>\n

when it waxed:
\nf\u00e1j!\u2026f\u00e1j!\u2026f\u00e1j!\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n

then release<\/p>\n

to induced
\ncoma\u2026 all
\ncycles’ end<\/p>\n

What was it?<\/p>\n

that shrinking
\nrelentless
\nmerciless
\nepicycle
\nof torment?<\/p>\n

hyperesthesia? hypomnesia?<\/p>\n

foreshadowed
\nmonths before
\nat home still<\/p>\n

but restless<\/p>\n

window… up\u2026
\nwindow… down\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n

my quest (not
\nabout me)
\nfor closure?
\nforeclosure?<\/p>\n

like yearning
\nunfulfilled
\nunredeemed<\/p>\n

to inter
\nlost loved ones\u2019
\nlost remains?<\/p>\n

to punish
\nbrutally
\nthose brutes who
\nhurt our kin?<\/p>\n

or is it
\ndread to be
\ndrawn into
\nthe rise\/fall
\nof that fell
\nvortex too?<\/p>\n

No, still not
\nabout me<\/a>
\nit’s of your
\nagony<\/p>\n

that I wail<\/p>\n

more… air\u2026 please\u2026
\nless… air\u2026 please\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n

powerless
\nto foretell
\nto forestall<\/p>\n

yet again
\nso in vain
\njust as then…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

more… air\u2026 please\u2026 less… air\u2026 please\u2026 more… air\u2026 please\u2026 less… air\u2026 please\u2026 more… air\u2026 please\u2026 What was it? that torment? at 30-second intervals? raise the fan\u2026 lower the fan\u2026 Terminal care near the end when it waxed: f\u00e1j!\u2026f\u00e1j!\u2026f\u00e1j!\u2026 then release to induced coma\u2026 all cycles’ end What was it? that shrinking relentless merciless epicycle of … <\/p>\n

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