Subway poem 2

Oh, listen, you can force it

Make the beats land differently in your mouth

Across the world our hearts must beat so differently

Otherwise why would our tongues sound so apart

That year in a faraway English class

The teacher asked me to read Frankenstein aloud

To hear the music that is English in her ears

Why, anything can be melody! Monsters are a poem!

Monsters on my tongue. Your heart beats differently

Waiting for me to release them

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