Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks September 2015 (Internet) | Page 7

Account of an Account Recovery
Nora Farrell
If only you could sell your broken heart on eBay,
To some stranger as a coat of armour
For their OKCupid account.
Bring the money to Amazon,
buy a phone book from a country you’ve never been to,
Call every number
till you find someone who can flirt really well in a foreign language.
If only you could have google-mapped her mood swings
‘Left at cranky, right at irritable, forward at cold shoulder’
Till you’re back to tongue kissing and reading out loud
If only your fights had sounded like toasting champagne
And the bubbles spilled from the rims of your glasses not her eyes.
If only every time you took her hand she remembered the swinging under the stars,
Not the tangos in traffic.
If only you hadn’t been the florescent lighting,
To her unsettled fingertips.

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