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Lindner, Carl, 1940- / Eat and remember: poems
(2001)

Signs,   pp. 20-21

Page 20

Signs
My thighs are gone.
In their place,
these sausages.
I call my woman
who sings
"I only have thighs for you."
I hang up.
I tell a friend
who says her neck
is missing.
I call the police
who suspect
it's the start
of a thigh-napping
epidemic.
They tell me
I must wait
forty-eight hours
before I can file
a missing thighs report.
They hang up on me.
I take out
an ad
in the local paper,
offering money
no questions asked.
The bill comes
to an arm and a leg.
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