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I am holding my heart in a paper bag
a sad lunch sack dripping blood remember that plastic bag floating around in American Beauty? we all thought it was so profound it made us feel I am holding my heart in a paper bag a sad lunch sack dripping blood it sucks carrying around this bleeding heart give me a day-glow lunchbox with cartoon characters give me a lunch ticket for some day-old heated up chicken nuggets you know what is more sad then an empty plastic bag floating around? an empty soul an empty person a dark heart that looks away from your bleeding heart in a sad paper bag It's all wrinkly and moist at the top where I hold it my hands are sweaty like that fat kid at recess trying to climb the ropes he is looking away a jock in gym shorts he doesn't understand the beauty of empty bags or full bags or bags held tightly with sweaty hands so you stand in an empty parking lot with your bleeding heart in a wrinkled paper bag and that guy from American Beauty hands you his profound empty plastic bag that was blowing in the wind he even chases it down for you because your heart is leaking through and your are cupping it with your sweaty hand he hands you the plastic bag so it can hold your bloody heart and you thank him then you both stand in the parking lot him with his video camera you with your grocery bag heart
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June 2023
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