I love you get in the car
Barton Smock

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I love you get in the car

***

this morning,

in the yard

a man with no hands

claimed

there were parts of me

he remembered. I locked the door

and called a taxi. went out

to smoke a cigarette

my heart

   heavy

     in the ankle

       of a horse. a carriage

with 'taxi'

written on the side

came for me. I spotted

an ear

in the parking lot

at work. I picked it up, it didn't

feel real. I turned it in

at the desk

and waited.

the loudspeaker

reported nothing

     but a found

earring.

by the time I came home

I felt healthy enough, and said

to the man

still in the yard

what do you want, my hand, and tried

 

to make a fist.