Keeps Pounding Against Walls
Janet Kuypers
08/30/10
I feel this pain in my chest
so I try to rationalize it away:
this isn’t heartburn,
my arm’s not tingling,
it’s not a heart attack
but I think I know
that my heart’s been pounding
because my heart’s been trapped
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it’s been trapped |
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&
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I don’t know if it’s trapped by |
my ribcage |
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I don’t know if it’s trapped by |
your male oppression |
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I don’t know if it’s trapped by |
my cowardice |
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or |
my fear |
or by—
I don’t know what trapped my heart
but it’s been pounding so hard
so hard that it’s slamming on those walls
those god-damned walls that I can’t even see
god, I don’t even know about the walls
but my heart keeps pounding against them
I don’t know about the walls
but my heart’s still pounding
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