This is the beat I like :
Tempo giusto,
Between sixty-six and seventy-six on the metronome.
Systole and diastole,
In and out.
Shape of the heart:
Ivy leaf for the bride and groom,
Eternal friendship, eternal life.
When the heart-muscle contracts,
The blood in the right lower chamber
Is propelled via the pulmonary artery
To the lungs for fresh oxygenation,
And the blood from the left lower chamber
Is expelled via the aorta back round the body.
The Aztec’s obsidian knife is uplifted,
Poised to cut out the inner sun.
William Harvey stands in the lecture theatre,
Holding up for his rapt congregation
The still-beating heart of a felon.
Time to don the goatskin
And run about the town,
Whipping every woman in sight!
The wild wolf claims his own.
Time for the drawing of lots,
And the sermon of the flesh.
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