(Apologies to Jon Bon Jovi)
This poet knows
enough of history
to know that
the theory of the heart
being the warehouse
and processing plant of emotion
went out with the black bile
(generally speaking).
Still Dick Cheney
has a book out now
detailing how
in the year 2012
our doctors finally gave him
a brand-new one
and this poet
cannot help but think
he gave names
(and names
and names)
a bad heart
(bad heart).
This poem © 2013 Emily Cooper.
