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EVERY STEP

every step
painful
like wearing
lead diving
or special anti-
zero gravity
magnetic boots

or climbing up
an ice ladder
to the
summit of
Everest

or descending down
a rockface on K2
on both mountains
deep into
the death zone

lack of oxygen
crippling my body
starving my brain
frost-bite nibbling away
at fingers, toes
other extremities

not that
I will ever need them
life declining at
this exponential rate