The room is dark. There’s a power point slide up. A figure steps in front of the projection, distorting the image.

Josh

I’m a poet. But I’m not your average poet. It may shock you to know that my poems don’t rhyme. Because have you ever heard a heartbeat? The beating of a human heart? Does it rhyme?

Well I guess I just proved my point.

Some have asked questions like, “Do hearts use any of the standard poetic devices?”

And then I’m like “Yes. They use repetition and meter.”

And then some people are like, “That’s getting a bit free with the idea of meter. It’s just the same beat over and over again.”

And then I’m like, “Unless the human heart has an arrhythmia.”

And they’re like, “So your model for poetry is an abnormal human heart, with an unpredictable heartbeat?”

To which I say, “Like the human heart, my poetry is constant, life-giving, and, due to a congenital defect, syncopated and surprising.”

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