14/30 - Heart

April 30/30

14/30

The fortifications of everyone’s hearts
Are made up of different and specified parts
The blast doors are open but shut with a crash
When they’re required to stop something rash
The armour is old and it squeaks when it moves
The wax in its love-holes are covered in grooves
Its earmuffs and blindfolds and tied up all tight
(but oddly, hearts seems to see better at night
And hear what they want to no matter what’s said.)
It’s brimming with life but it’s camouflaged dead.
'Cause hearts that don’t “heart” are safer, you see.
You learn this quite quickly when in infancy
An up through to college and sometimes beyond
When someone or something of who’ve you’ve grown fond
Takes a big stab at your life-giving part
The oxygenating, mammalian heart
There is a reason in video games
Why lives look like hearts and they don’t look like brains
Because your heart holds what is precious to you
It holds all your love there and other’s love, too
Impossible though the heart may be to sway
And though no heart’s ever been made to obey
A heart can be muffled and helped to forget
And still kept around like an old, favourite pet
Because without hearts then we all drop down dead
But if we can ‘help’ our hearts out with our head
Give it some crutches, a tv, some wine
A bullet proof vest, and a big neon sign
That says nothing’s wrong but that none need apply
Just leave it alone in its safety to die.
That way the human that’s wrapped round that heart
Can stay unperturbed by that worrisome part
And still walk around with fresh blood in their veins
No aches or depressions or hearbreak or pains
Just super protected. A Frankenstein pump.
Useful but no longer tempted to jump
Off every high rooftop to soar with pink wings
Mine’s unconcerned with such frivolous things
A miracle heart is inside me and so
I’ll show it you. Oh shoot. Where’d it go?



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15/30 - Haiku for Kids

April 30/30

15/30

Is it an earthquake?
No, it's just an elephant
Skipping rope outside

Octopus high five
If it had human fingers
A high forty

A blind porcupine
Thought that he had a girlfriend
It was a cactus

I like telling jokes
To hyenas because they
Laugh at anything

Do not argue with
A zebra. They only see
Things in black and white
(props to Erin Kirsh for help with this one)


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16/30 - We Are a Disease

April 30/30

16/30

We’re hiding in the cupboard. We need to admit that we are a disease and spread. We need to spider out from star to star and consume. Staying here is not an option. We were not designed for stagnancy. We need to leave the earth and make husks of other planets. I know we can do it. I have faith in us.


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17/30 - Wishy Washy

April 30/30

17/30

If I’m wishy washy then it’s only because I wash wishes and I wish Wash didn’t die in firefly.

I cast spells to slow down time because I’m witchy watchy and I like to watch witches. Witches wash time to slow it down. A clean second is the kind that takes a long time to go by. Dirty time goes by too fast. Time that has regret or worry or a lot happening. Clean time, unobserved time, takes a long time to go by. Ironically, it’s the time that feels like it’s going by the fastest.

Clean wishes are the best wishes. Simple wishes. Clear wishes. Dirty wishes need to be washed. They have a better chance of coming true. If you have clean wishes during clean seconds, then your chances of having them granted go up astronomically. Wishes that cast washing spells on watches to clean time and make wishes come true live in in Whichitaw, Greenwich, Midwich, Edritch, and Sandwich.

Which witch will wash a watch? Which wish will witches wash? Watch the witches wash the wishes and watch the witches wash the watch.

Keep the watch in your pocket after the ceremony. It will run fast but don’t touch it. It will grant your wishes as you walk. Step by step, minute by minute.



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