Burning Muse

A heart leaving ohio at 70 mph…

lifeencoded:

single
married
other
life
death
     all these
             concepts
           combine
         into word
      problems
    meant to be
cogitated

agitated
in a personal
   centrifuge
     with the
       arithmetic of
           the heart
       not an analytical
                      mind
                      the trouble
                 is that
                 is that I
            am terrible
      at emotional math
I solve word
problems
          with symbols
     with little candy
                hearts
or jars of rat
poison

with hard logic
            even though
                 logic is
               not
     required

         I am not
            a scientist
       of the soul
even if
humans can
     be explained
          through
               numbers
 the statistical pictures
     those numbers
         paint in their
                Newspaper
           bar chart
                  format
      is confusion &
inconsistency