|
|
Heart-Shaped Mirror
when falling in love is
what he & I did
each of us traded
a bit
of our self with the other
So
now I sleep with
a bit of his kidney
tucked squishily under my pillow
(you see, they hadta take it out
and let him keep it
in a glass jar)
well, he wanted to have
a piece of my heart
but we decided that blood should be inside
not outside
the human body
[it would%u2019ve been messy, too]
see, I%u2019ve never even had
my tonsils out, so he took
an eyelash
kissed it
and glued it to his dresser
<the thrice-woven thread
will not hasten to break>
we felt that eyelashes and kidneys weren%u2019t enough
so we made a new person
who now pastes eyelashes and kidneys
on their heart%u2014%u2014
%u2665
%u2014shaped mirror
|
|
Comments