One day my heart just up and left
from its bone and cartilage cage in my chest.
First it divorced the arteries and veins,
preventing the valves’ drainage from my brain.
Then the four chambers split into two
to muscle through dense flesh and connective tissues.
The medulla oblongata tried but couldn’t regulate
this vital artery’s premeditated escape.
Using the aorta and cavernous venae cavaes,
my vital organ climbed higher and higher,
ascending this esophagus,
damming my rapid pulse,
causing me to convulse and cough
my myocardin right out of my mouth.
When it was gone I crawled along the floor,
following the blood trails through the back door.
