• Introduction

  • Scribbles

  • Oxygen

  • I Wanted to Tell a Funny Chemistry Joke, but All the Good Ones are Gone

  • I climbed the steps and there he stood

  • Ode to Indium/I climbed the steps and there He stood

  • All Hallows’ Eve/The Old Farmhouse

  • I’m Just a Phony

  • Halloween/I’m Just a Phony

  • The empty Slate we know and love

  • Iridium

  • I have always enjoyed the night

  • Heart Decay

  • The White Path

  • The Black Path

  • Short Story

  • High Dive

  • Cake

  • A Bouquet Of Flowers

  • A Soulmate for Sodium

  • Red Wine Never Comes Out

  • I realized I wasn’t the only one     

  • Up, Up, Up, and Away

  • Vermilion

  • A Man and His Dog

  • What a Scary Thing to Say

  • The Haircut

  • Loose Ends

  • The Garden Fairy

  • Lucky Number 13

  • Three Hearts, One Holder

  • Government Distributed Life

  • It’s Up to You

  • Lithium

  • Untitled

  • Fluorescent Adolescent

  • 800

  • Scribbles Staff

Oxygen

When you take your first full breath,

It’s sweet like the first rays of sun at dawn

Then you breathe your last in death

Just one more second, and then you’re gone

 

It ignites the first flame of the dry season 

Purifying this earth with divine violence

We cleanse in fire for a reason 

It leaves everything in barren silence

                                                                                                                                                   

We first gathered around the warm glow,

Telling stories about how we got here

Since then, we’ve expanded on what we know

Now astronauts explore with shuttles in the atmosphere

 

When the air fills your lungs, think of your mother 

For oxygen is an element like no other

 

 

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