She examined a used heart & clocked its
serviceable beats, it could tell
yes from no reliably enough
for the time being & could register another
mother’s neighborly nod, the do
drop by I’d love some & the coos
to strange irritable babies in passing
through one’s body & days.
Two others eyed her tilting it &
conferred, but she’d got there first,
early bird at exactly
this table marginally placed,
though for all one knows there might
be jumbles more of them out back
for when who’sever in charge thinks
to fetch another or ladies just ask.
