Get a lack

Adrian Fry

 

Get a lack, the billboards said,

You need a lack at this point in your life.

And so, to show we were not out of kilter with the times,

We got a lack.

 

It cost a child.

Our only, fair exchange for all that lack.

They smiled and said she’d barely feel a thing.

We got a lack.

 

We moved it in.

Epicentred it in what was once her room.

It hollows spaces in the place where feelings are,

Then fills with lack.

 

Get a lack, the billboards say,

You need a lack at this point in your life.

Why wait on Fate to make you incomplete?

Get a lack.

 

 

 

 

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