Items Found In the Salvation Army Thrift Shop
Perusing musty isles in the thrift shop
Fragments of strange histories appear
Unwanted items, each with a tale,
A message wrapped in time
Silicon breast implants, a coffin, a stuffed
Eagle, a jar of bull sperm, a fishing boat
An urn full of ashes; all price-tagged
Wait on shelves for treasure hunters
The most bizarre find, a life detector
For coffins carries a sign “For persons
Under doubt of being in a trance”. It
Looks like a giant ear trumpet.
Strewn artifacts, like dead souls hint
At eclectic proclivities long abandoned.
Vultures pick over the discarded carrion,
Left for dead along life’s roadside.
Smugly smiling, I load the back of the
Station wagon with my new didgeridoo
And stuffed porcupine.
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