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RIGHT THUMB AND INDEX FINGER

They pulled a complete
body out of the lake—
of no fixed address, someone’s
beloved wife Myrtle now
a water-logged thumbprint,
rigor and personal effects
and no one around to say why—
just ridges and whorls, a pack
of Luckies, twelve dollars,
one shoe, dentures, fountain pen,
red hair and a gun