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My Heart is a Train Saw
by Angela Yuriko Smith

My heart is a train saw.

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I am not your damsel

in distress, trembling

in white dress, hanging

on your words, dying

to be heard. I will not

die on this track, severed

affection and air brakes

crushing my breast to red

jelly à la carte for crows.

.

My heart is a train saw.

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I have a one track kind of love.

My kisses are razors, cutting 

embraces to open your ribs

splintering bone, liberating

your heart. Signal failures and

red flags won’t work on

this girl. Your Mama

warned you better, said

not all girls are weak

I can handle my shears.

I can leave you in stitches.

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My heart is a train saw.

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Fiction © Copyright Angela Yuriko Smith
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com.

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Angela Yuriko Smith is an American poet, author and co-publisher of Space and Time magazine, a publication that has been printing speculative fiction, art and poetry since 1966. Together we build a poem as a community each month. Visit “Exquisite Corpse” at SpaceandTime.net to submit.

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