Amputees
At the mall,
just sitting there,
the old man said,
rapping his knuckles
on his thigh, this leg’s
good for nothing
but leaning on.
They took the real
one March One
Two O O Two.
Same day
my wife died, said
the other old man,
just standing there,
staring at his feet.
—Dion Kempthorne, Richland Center
