They said
Everything is okay with your heart
At the doctor’s office
(we think)
But I told them
How can you be so sure?
You’ve never been in all the rooms
I’ve boarded up
Stuck
like clogged arteries
like rush hour in Chicago
like America
fumbling for the light switch in some dark
hotel room
after fucking some person it didn’t even know the name of
In that same daze
we watched it die
a crumbling escapade
All around us things were falling
dust and bricks
the sky
our hearts
and eyesights
failed
the blood ran
cold
in the night
and the tears ran hollow
those globes of pale light
the only thing that we had understood
the only way we could tell we were
still alive
Oh, prodigious fright!
Why did you blind us so?
And now we all know
that humanity and we have
the same veins
are just as lost
in our own broken houses
where the paint is past peeling
and the air is still settling out
the vengeance and the dust
and the fumes that make the ache return again
heart pounding (waking up) ears ringing
turning
me into something new
I hope
Don’t you?
