when it all starts crumbling: get up / wash the heartbreak off those sheets/ splash your face with cold water / caramelize half an onion / eat it with three eggs / add sriracha / find a brown paper bag and write "it did hurt but I will not harden. they pierced this heart but it will not harden."/ burn the note in the kitchen sink / walk to the gas station for two cups of coffee / share it with your neighbor or the sidewalk or your browning philodendron / sit and watch the sun swallow another nation / send the text / say the prayer / say you're sorry.