coughing up blood in the morning

[tectak]

regardless of what else is going on "exeunt" is the wrong word. 1. there is some disagreement with your verb which makes it second person direction, 2. while literally it means leave the stage, as direction, most notably, it means "leave our story" which it does not as the very next line picks it back up.

Hi milo,
Not in agreement here. Note the full stop after "...out of smoky lungs" This is closure.
Next stanza is now free. Direction in sense of authority is implicit in " Exeunt via lips, (note this comma as seperator) descend no lower than the ground". Admittedly, one must ignore "whatever else is going on" but I think the stage direction nature of this one stanza is permissable poetically, if only as a device. Of course, whether or not it is intentionally so is a whole other bucket of winkles. ( to keep serge mystified)
Best,
tectak

You are ignoring the lack of a subject. What you think the narrator is saying is the mucous "exits" through the lips, but the narrator is telling YOU, (the reader) to EXIT THROUGH HIS LIPS!! WTF?

Be calm old bean.
Yes. Without a subject the implied "direction" can only sensibly be applied to the "mucous" As I thought I made clear it is implicit...if not by intent then most acceptably by the avoidance in the reading of any reducto ad absurdum misconstruance. That would be poetic interpretation, I believe.
Best,
tectak