Broken Heart

Hey kid, you should treat your family better

because someone’s gonna break your heart

Take care of the scars on your chest

Buy yourself some Xanax

and take a stranger out to dinner

Go back to the beach

and build your little brother

a sandcastle (just like he always wanted)

before somebody comes to break your heart

Eat your vegetables and convert to Hinduism

Listen to your great grandmother blab on

while she dominates you

in the last game of scrabble before she dies

Watch the 2003 alcs

until your nine year-old face

looks like a wooden patio

suffering from flood trauma

Use your dad’s favorite bottles of wine

as bowling pins

then tape record him

while he screams at you—

so you can listen to his voice

forever and ever

before someone breaks your heart

Tell a homeless man your life story

then kiss him on the cheek

and tell him that you love him

Because someone’s coming to break your heart