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Eat My Heart: A Sonnet

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May 05, 2026
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Eat My Heart

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

In the dark dally I eating my heart,
This cell which is like a dense, diving bell,
Which pressures my head, though long I to yell
Desist do I do as sea-diving starts.
A sea, the sea, its trouble crushes me,
As thick as death’s smother, clinging other
Which won’t go away, though seemingly free
I think me to be, I am its brot…

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