My Heart is Beef Jerky
A poem
2 min readDec 23, 2023
My Heart is Beef Jerky
Do you ever meet someone too nice?
So soft of voice, sweet in perpetual
offers to help, rounded, no edges,
no corners, skin and hair
fair as the beige of every office wall;
poems written about them have
no crackle or cracks or darkness at all.
