i pluck the beating heart from my eucalyptus tree
this heart is not a cartoon heart
it’s an actual,
maybe human, heart all red and pink
and wiggly and smooshy and bloody and pumping,
making a sound like a sump pump,
shloshupm shloshump shloshump
when i first pluck the heart from the tree it beats faster, louder, harder but then i lift the organ up to my li…
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