Breathe Or Burn

I step outside and my chest gets tight Heavy particulate under the

street light

Microscopic pieces of your exhaust

Counting up the microscopic cost (cough

cough)

My lungs are not your dumping ground So why does poison make

your world go round?

You drive your giant truck down my block While my cell walls

are taking a shock (stop it!)

Every breath is a basic right Why do we have to stand

and fight? Your convenience is my disease

Please stop trying to kill me with your air pollution!

(please stop!) No right to poison what we breathe It's a biological

invasion!

Asthma rates are climbing,

cardiovascular threat

Every single emitter is a technical debt

We shouldn't let you dump your trash in the sky

Just so your corporate profit margins stay high

Carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide There is nowhere left for my body

to hide

It gets inside the bloodstream and into the brain A systemic chemical

chain-link of pain (it hurts!) Please stop trying to kill me with

your air pollution! (please stop!) No right to poison what we breathe

It's a biological invasion!

Just let me breathe...

(just

let me...) Clean air...