Like a musty old chess set
whose knights were
long lost
and have since been
replaced by two
snatches of cloth,
or the rusty stock pot
with a frying pan
for its cover
that's too trusty
to replace, even
at trivial cost—so too
can a heart
still be
jury-rigged to work
even with a few
of its parts
snatched out,
mislaid by
the user, or
accidentally tossed.
