The Parts of 2666, Part 8

The only thing missing
as far as I'm concerned,
the only thing
Belano could really have included
had he time to finish 2666 himself,
would have been
a story
from the perspective
of a missing girl,
not the crime
but the tragedy,
the heart of the story,
really,
and as these days go
probably what would have been
the key to having the book celebrated

as it should be.

As it is, though,
the hole in things
is sometimes
necessary.

Which is also to say,
I never considered
2666 remotely incomplete.