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  • Never Offer Your Heart to Someone Who Eats Hearts

    April 1st, 2015

    In Honor of National Poetry Month before -the writers Burst into writing with first sign of ink ,I thought of Alice Walker 

    by Alice Walker:

    Never offer your heart
    to someone who eats hearts
    who finds heartmeat
    delicious
    but not rare
    who sucks the juices
    drop by drop
    and bloody-chinned
    grins
    like a God.

    Never offer your heart
    to a heart gravy lover.
    Your stewed, overseasoned
    heart consumed
    he will sop up your grief
    with bread
    and send it shuttling
    from side to side
    in his mouth
    like bubblegum.

    If you find yourself
    in love
    with a person
    who eats hearts
    these things
    you must do.

    Freeze your heart
    immediately.
    Let him—next time
    he examines your chest—
    find your heart cold
    flinty and unappetizing.

    Refrain from kissing
    lest he in revenge
    dampen the spark
    in your soul.

    Now,
    sail away to Africa
    where holy women
    await you
    on the shore—
    long having practiced the art
    of replacing hearts
    with God and Song.

    by Alice Walker

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