this spoon kicked around in a silverware drawer
and in much regular use
at 2009 Clay Street, Cedar Falls Iowa
for years
it was owned by the srn editor's grandparents
but I think it was owned by a preceding Dix family
on other turf in Iowa
maybe my great-grandparents
just a common silver-plate implement
bearing the patina of scratch upon scratch
from clinking against other utensils
day by day, year by year
they gave us each one spoon
as I recall
our unwealthy grandparents
but it would take a winning lottery ticket, if even that
to wrest this appendage from my
non-gun-toting but Charlton Heston-like
uncold hand
note handle is inscribed with "Dix" amidst the many nix
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