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HEARTS
Mary Kolesnikova
A diamond-grey snake, anxiety coils around my chest and
I can feel my heart beating, beating and lurching
occasionally like a slipped gear.
To think that I am made of such machinery, that one
beat off or one too many
will end it for me; all this and I cannot breathe when
I can hear my heart.
Imagine. Inside me there is a muscle that must keep
squeezing every second,
standing between me and death.