The old car sits in the front<\/p>\n
It rusts, matching the yellow<\/p>\n
Surely meant to be<\/p>\n
Never mind a new car<\/p>\n
Or new paint<\/p>\n
The old car sits in the front<\/p>\n
Where it should always be<\/p>\n
It’s an anchor point<\/p>\n
As is the old kettle at the diner<\/p>\n
The one no one moves<\/p>\n
Easier to fix it but why fix it<\/p>\n
The old kettle sits in the front<\/p>\n
And the servers just move around it<\/p>\n
Just like the street sweepers<\/p>\n
Anchor points<\/p>\n
And that tree<\/p>\n
That lives in the middle of the bedroom<\/p>\n
Of me<\/p>\n
The one I hadn’t been tending?<\/p>\n
An anchor point which is living<\/p>\n
Not an obstacle or recyclable resource<\/p>\n
Just, anchoring<\/p>\n
So I can trade in the car and buy a new kettle<\/p>\n
Without feeling<\/p>\n
A sudden and sever loss of the sentimental<\/p>\n
The sentimental, always a lousy form of anchoring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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