Hand-Replacement - Subtle

There you are then

At the beginning and the end of a relationship

You’ve asked nicely for your arm back

Except

The million cooks of any earth moment You have ever seen

Have let you hold the mirror by the edges

With the frame off for a minute

And cut…

And… the inside of your body has not ceased to be a blind spot

The longer you go

The more the laws of flesh reveal to you

About those more visible veins on the back of your hands

Something very serious

The sort of thing that escapes from say a tophat or hotel unmothered

Serious as the missing stories of a burnt out building

For example:

A heren and snake knot their necks in a fear based fight to the death

Easy like a clean cut cylinder of frozen lake

Is slide solved into an empty ten gallon drum

Its

Why do people always rush their wishes at the wishing well

Denying

That first instinct to put a beautiful view in your mouth…

And eat