June 11, 1999

Oxygen
By Candice D.

Since when was it your job to do this?
I thought it was normal...
thought it was love.

It's not love...or is it?
If it is I shan't expect much from marriage
I shan't expect much from friends...
for if this is..
then I might as well die...

for love is painful..
not just painful as they say in the songs
or in the dramas
or even in the poems.

This is a different kind 
its supposed to be the basic kind
its not even basicly humane

How could stifling..
be love?

Even the apes and the dogs know it

Don't give it milk.

Dead.


Don't give it shelter.

Dead.


Don't give it love.

dead....