has it been hard to breathe?
there's poison in the air
you claim there was never
a time it wasn't there
but we have developed
a tolerance for gas
what once was pollution
now just gets a free pass
I've been told enough times
coexist with cancer
till I could no longer
recognize the answer
first you took down the signs
that tell us no smoking
then you passed out the smokes
and mocked us for choking
from the secondhand fumes
now you've even become
intolerant of my
refusal to succumb
I need to breathe to live
but the air itself kills
building a tolerance
would demand sprouting gills
so as I suffocate
on what I hate to bear
I breathe out in your face
finally some fresh air