Heart Beat
---- Big Frank Dickinson
New York City imposed superlatives on him of height, sound, variety, and general bigness. He responded in the typical way by feeling relatively small and then he started to grow with the city. First it was his feet, which were pretty big to begin with but began to approach clown-proportions, and then it was his nose, also longer than that average nose, but it quickly began to droop in a big city kind of way. His voice began to boom and he developed outsized ambitions along with big city appetites. Finally his heart took on ridiculous proportions. He had an empire-state-building-sized heart that towered above all else. It rose slowly and pedestrians threw ropes up on it to hold it down, like Donald Duck tethered down during a parade. It broke free of all bounds and floated skyward - not really the best place for a big heart.
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