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Filling a Body: Hands
by Lisa Marie Brodsky
She works in Macys as a register girl. But early in the morning, before most employees arrive, she enters the mannequin overstock room where body parts lay in large canvas bins. Passing the faces, arms, feet, she stops at the hand bin. They are of different sizes: adult, child; different genders: men and women; fingers uniquely splayed. From 7-9a.m., she stands over the bin, a child over a snail, and she tries to find her pair of matching hands. Finally shes in luck. She rests hers proudly beneath them and smiles. She looks around and chooses the leg bin next and so, days later, searches for each corresponding part. And when she finds her mouth, she will tell them all to go to hell. She will occupy as much space as that damn fiberglass twin.
09/11/2005 Posted on 09/11/2005
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