there's a heart that beats
underneath my coat, a single heart with
countless beats, a song that lulls and arouses and interrupts--
interrupts the thrumming of the rain against the windowshield, presses pause on a movie that's gone too bland

there's a heart that beats
and eats
away at my coat, and i sleep away the pain and i awake from it, too, yet later it interrupts--
interrupts the predictability of life and breathes in and bleeds out a staccato of Life, a life that is brand
new