Lady, You Shot Me #7

He wanted to give away
his heart

& the police
in Los Angeles

wanted to catalog his heart.
They did the least

they could.
The absolute least.

Darren C. Demaree is the author of As We Refer to Our Bodies (8th House, 2013), Temporary Champions (Main Street Rag, 2014), The Pony Governor (After the Pause Press, 2015) and Not For Art Nor Prayer (8th House, 2015). He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and children.

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