Poems Niederngasse Terry Angelo Second-Hand Breath We sit and talk you in your prozac calm and me in my vicodin haze We debate buying a used respirator and wonder about the effects of breathing second-hand oxygen We stare at the shriveled figure lying in a worn-out bed that so many have been in before inhaling bits of sterilized hospital air and staring at us through closed eyes Do you think we should take him home and hook him up to the respirator we will buy? a family reunion of used dreams fading away with each second-hand breath d Terry Angelo:  I was born and raised in Manhattan -a fact of which I am very proud, and which I think greatly affects my writing. I have travelled extensivley across the USA and Mexico, usually on a Greyhound bus and with a backpack on my shoulders. Human rights violations are a major writing theme for me, and I am having a piece published in the August, 2006 issue of Cynic Magazine. email:  Terry Angelo