you are
electricity:
a volt,
a shock
sending waves
through my
corpse to
jump start
my
empty
heart

09/23/2003

Author's Note: work in progress... i've also realized people may not know that the title of the poem is the technical term for the machine to help in jump-starting a patient's heart when it has stopped in an emergency situation

Posted on 09/24/2003
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