slow down heart

Slow down heart, and drub on
Death will not come

The scars you have made, you have poured your soul
No love is made here, but love happens 

Excerpts from “The Exact Location of the Soul,” “The Surgeon as Priest,” “The Knife,” “Skin,” and “The Corpse” from MORTAL LESSONS by Richard Selzer. Copyright © 1974 and renewed 2002 by Richard Selzer. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.