♥

If you can’t hear the sound of a heart,

half-buried, grinding like a pulp mill

then try a stethoscope. In one valve

and out the other, as the textbooks say.

A capacity for sadness is an incredible letdown.

I’d rather see the whole litter

of puppies neutered and be done with it –

where was I going with that?

I told you I get lost in low light.

Cute little thing with your use of both hands,

help me finish this off. Puppies:

you can’t take them to the museum,

no matter how much the kids plead.

Just imagine the bones they’ll drag home.