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Garage Sale

Roger Cowin

Selling the debris of my past;
wooden sawhorses
supporting knotted plywood
carelessly draped with stained,
second hand sheets
covered in the refuse
of an average life.
I wonder who’ll buy the scars
of my childhood traumas
or the wounds of my first heartache.
Surely they would prefer
the toaster oven or set of
never-sharpen Japanese Ginsu knives
over the ruins of my adolescence
or that mint green 70’s disco jacket.
It would seem more practical
to opt for the still
serviceable hi-fi over the hair
I shed as a young man
in my premature rush
towards middle age.
And I know I’ll never
get rid of that old appendix.
Maybe, I’ll offer it as twofer,
buy one get a free gall bladder.
And what shall I do
about that bucket of spare woes?
I could always toss in the blender
and they could puree up their own
cup of instant despair.

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