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Beating Paper Heart

By Katrina Armour

Topics: Poetry Source: AllPoetry Original source

I picked you up You pushed me down And my heart hit the pavement But my self-esteem took the brunt of it And folded like Oragami Oragami thumbtacks Oragami thumbtacks in my brain ThRoB tHrOb And the beat goes on... 410 degrees In my mind Blind man steering Seat-belt burns Paper Paper wings Paper wings aflame upon the angel BuRn bUrN And the beat goes on... The steel fireworks That crawled across your face As you looked upon your fallen prey And sized it up with seven swans He crawled upon it and Sucked Sucked through Sucked through the flesh and into the heart DeAd lOvE And the beat falls fast... Written August 21st, 2001 © on Aug 21 2001 11:40 AM PST, Katrina Armour    0 • 1

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