By jwb71913
Date: 2003 Apr 29
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Exit Wound II

Thorough and frequent examinations
Careful and complete repairs, fine thread
Without these extreme measures
I'd certainly be dead

I'm stitched up tight, no scar in view
No entry for sweet bird of youth
Front of my heart is safe from you
I hide by being loud, uncouth

This heart by all appearances whole
When viewed straight from the front
Really has a gaping hole
In back, no one will want

To pour love into a bottomless pit
To get nothing in return
Your love has blown the back of it
An exit wound that burns