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I put my heart in a cardboard box

and taped it all around.

Put that sucker on the back of my bike

and took a ride downtown.



I stopped in at the pawn shop

to see how much I could get

But they said that they weren't ready

to take in used-up organs yet.



I rode on down to the second-hand store

to show it to Guinevere.

she said, "It looks like a real kind heart.

Sure,…

Okay, relax. It's my choice

to fly by the seat of my pants

and my voice

will carry me places

emerge and emote,

emitting exuberance all the places I float.

So, relax. Stay ethereal.

Just this side of dilereal.

And know that in matters

that really do count,

where there is love,

love will win out.

Where you go isn't large.

It's the paths that you…

She closed the French doors

and stood by the mantel,

Grabbed the fire poker

whopped him on the head.

Found a roll of duct tape,

bound him up…