Seven Things I Know About Hearts
The heart is the size of a fist and weighs
somewhere near twelve ounces or one pound.
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You sent a card that read A light heart lives long
for my eighteenth Birthday and now I ask
how heavy is the heart that leaves his child?
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At birth my heart was the size of a coin
and weighed about two-thirds of an ounce.
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It takes sixteen weeks to see the heart,
around the time you pressed for mine to stop.
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The woman you fucked as I slipped out must
have had pink nipples the size of my heart.
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Aristotle believed that the heart was
the seat of the soul and the center of man.
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My heart is a freight train hauling a steel beam.
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“Seven Things I know About Hearts” was first published in Margie.
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