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the Greeks next door
suspended a faux marble head
on ropes for Halloween
and when they left
it there for a month
I didn’t say anything

when it came to February
and the wire innards of
their sculpture started to show
I didn’t say anything
it looked like rotten flesh

in July
on my birthday
I knocked with a bottle in hand
I didn’t recognize the woman
but the man on the couch
I knew
fuck
I recognized her too
so I said
wrong apartment
and they took it down next month