Like a ratty old chess set
whose bishops got lost
and long since
were replaced by two
snatches of cloth,
or a rusty stock pot
with a frying pan cover
that's too trusty
to replace, even
at trivial cost—
so too can a heart
still be jury-rigged to work,
even though a few
of its parts
were snatched-out
and stolen,
or mislaid, or intentionally
tossed.
