open_heart_surgery
stork daddy reach in with your fingers
like two hot pincers,
and twist
with the heat others have given you,
with the voice that says,
it's not even yours to put on the line,
with the guilt, and yet also giddy conditional esteem,
your own heart,
midgasp
until it straightens its crooked
beat or stops cold.
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...
eskimos friend "Then let them anatomise her; see what breeds about her heart. Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard-hearts?"

in some productions the fool is stabbed at this point inadvertently. imo, that'd be the saddest, most shocking part of the play.
040320
what's it to you?
who go
blather
from