chocolate truffles (6)

there was a boy with no feet,
and he learned to walk with stilts
strapped to both legs.

there was a girl with every limb,
and every feature in perfect submission
to her body, but she wouldn’t

lift a finger, just sat on her chair
of plush boys and listened to their courts.
a jumbled mess of envy

dissolved her away to bones and rags.
with no one left to love her, she set off
the left way, and left and left and left

behind the discarded chair, painted
in discarded mascara strands,
until one right away

she met the boy with no feet.
he stilted over to her and gave her
a chocolate truffle, and that is how

they fell in love.