(e.j.p)
There you are, laughing from the bottom of your lungs And here I am, barely breathing.
Two people, two very different states of being, set side by side in just four lines. The speaker looks at someone else, apparently a person they know well, who is laughing with their whole body, "from the bottom of your lungs." Then the poem turns on a single word, "And," and the speaker describes…
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