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meow Shanghai · China Poetry · October 2026
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This poem depicts a moment of physical distress, including choking and struggling to breathe.

kneeling down
on cold kneecaps
sticking a head through
the way you put on
a Christmas sweater.

there, my throat closes
and that voice
unjustly incarcerated
scraping my skull
only faintly leaking
from my nostrils
a dying stream of oxygen.

the jailed screams
the echo twirling around
grey haze and carpet
and in front, marbled floor.
what?
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About the Author meow Shanghai · China

meow is a college student from Shanghai, China. Writing is how meow processes their thoughts, and sometimes those thoughts become literary pieces like this one.

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