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Purple Heart

A purple heart
Pinched
through the skin.

A traffic of ants
In my armpit.

I am dead since tomorrow.

Rising from yeast.
Eat me.
It’s a holiday.

Through it all such sorrow
unless you are real.

Lend me a dollar
with no chance of a payback.

I certainly know what death is:
the absence of nothing.

Whatever you bring up is a miracle.

Be it so.

Published in Poetry