Gauss’s Box

Andy Sedlack

I can’t remember when I

found it, where I got it.

For as long as I can remember.

Looming, with its polished

alphabet tumblers

on simple gray box.

Back then I was

eager, hopeful

I tried every name

whose person

I could find.

Chasing the other

side of gray

without a clue.

I almost forgot

it in my

closet last winter

but it snuck out with a crash

following sweatpants.

And I couldn’t help but

try her name—

nope. Isn’t this

why I put it away?

There’ll be someone else.

There has to be a right someone

somewhere.

I’m not sure

nowadays

If I want to see its

insides.

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