my heart is in my chest
a particular siding
i feel it sometimes
when i am walking hard or eating chilli
so i avoid that last thing
mostly
pink i expect with tubes
mostly like in the pig’s hearts
mum used to buy from the butchers
for dinner
now i am vegetarian
i think that if i have a soul
it may be behind the heart
hiding
and maybe that is where my work
comes from
it seems odd that at times of rest and when all is quiet around
that i cannot hear it
nor the other workings
like lungs and veins and stomach
oh!
except the latter rumbles