Nine Little Words

It looked like a poem when you did this. I only wish . . .
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9+) You can no longer rationalize eating for the sake of hunger or living because it is so wonderful to breathe.
9) You cannot rationalize eating or living just to breathe.
7) You cannot eat or live to breathe.
5) You cannot live to breathe.
3) You cannot breathe.
1)Breathe.

9+) A tongue split like a forking road flits over the mountain crags of his teeth
9) A tongue like a forking road flits over teeth.
7) His forked tongue flits over mountainous teeth.
5) The tongue flits over teeth.
3) Tongue over teeth.
1) Split.

9+) You gave up bodily needs for a mind like hunger and an imagination that consumed.
9) You sacrificed bodily needs for a hungry, imaginative mind.
7) Body was released in exchange for mind.
5) Body was traded for mind.
3) Body and mind.
1) Mind.