William Taylor Jr.

Your Stupid Heart

Hey friend, tell me
what’s left 

of your 
stupid heart.

I want to know
what music

is yet within you,

what secret joy 
untrodden,

what scrap of beauty 
you’ve kept hidden 
from the thieves.

Have you harnessed 
the horror of the average day 

with some new 
form of laughter,

a graceful movement 
of the hand?

Have you learned
to sing like fire?

Tell me as we drink this wine

and cast tomorrow 
and all their dumb 

and empty faces 
into oblivion.     

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