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Bury the heart.

One word of advice: bury the heart.

Go bury it, don't wait, do it now. Take it out, you can do it, it's easier than it sounds. Feel it in your hands, how light or heavy it is. How the blood spurts out at every angle. Don't worry. It's going to be ok, I promise. Just take it out.

Go to a safe place. A safe place is a place neither you or anyone else will ever remember. Go there by night, when the moon is almost black. Try not to look too closely at anything or note any distinct features about the place. If you do, wipe it from your memory. It won't work otherwise.

Now take a last look at your heart. Think about what made it beat, if you must. That it was dead once and that someone made it start beating, made the blood flow, and how good that felt. How good and comforting it could feel to give your heart to someone else. Now, what we're about to do won't feel as good. But it's necessary.

When you're done remembering, dig a hole. A deep one if possible. The classical six feet will do. Throw your heart in and close the hole. The cold wet earth will feel strange and disquieting for a while. You'll get used to it. And sooner or later your heart will stop beating. It will not be a nice sensation. It can't go on living down there in the cold earth though, just doesn't work that way. Don't worry. It's going to be ok.

When you're all done, with the pain and the sickness and the cold, turn around and go. Go far away. Don't look back. Make sure that you don't remember where your heart lies. Make sure that the memory of the place is buried down there with your heart. You know you'd come back. Eventually you would. After you forgot everything.

Don't. Don't forget but don't remember. Bury it and never come back. Let it lie there, it's better this way.

You can go on now, with whatever it is you want to do or were doing before. Use your head, you still have that one. Use your head or your stomach or your feet or whatever. But bury your heart. If you know what's good for you, bury the heart. Go bury it. Do it now.

Thank me later. Listen to me, I'm serious. Go bury it.

Bury it as long as there is something left to bury.