You will never have to lose yourself to win me over.

— Andrea Gibson 

 


Marilyn Monroe and Bert Stern during a photo shoot, 1962.

There are twenty four ribs
that supposedly protect
your heart from damage,
but I swear you know
the precise location of
each 4 cm gap, know
how to nick the arteries
and slip into my circulation,
virtually undetected until
the x-rays show you
lighting up my body
like a christmas tree.

implexa, Infection 

If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.

— Margaret Atwood