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Jul 26, 2008
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Junk
under the bed, up on a shelf
hung on a nail, thrown in a pail
stacked in a box, stuffed in a can
packed in a drawer, stood in a corner
everything ends up somewhere
temporary residence or a permanent home
with others of its kind, or by itself all alone
junk and treasures and useful stuff
that won't be used , maybe won't be moved
until it's finally thrown away in a flurry
of life changing declutterification
or else, given to someone who can be conned
into assuming ownership of the item
that person can then either make good use their new stuff
or more likely relegate it to a new place of keeping
where it will plague the new owner with,
at first, dreams of clever utilization,
and later , with regrets and self-recriminations
for the time wasted as the stuff of past aquisitions
is re-located ,re-organized , re-piled,
and is eventually re-classified as junk once again
And then it is given away or sold, or donated,
or otherwise gotten rid of
cycling out of its dusty corner into someone elses' life
or maybe finally making it to the crusher where
the recycling process can prepare it for re-utilization
as a whole new component of manufacture
something that someone somewhere
wants or needs or can't live without
— Edevold, Jul 26, 2008
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Critiques
easylife_2
17 years 10 months ago
Nice ending
themoonman
17 years 10 months ago
Edevold...
infinite_dwarf
17 years 10 months ago
Edevold
Edevold
17 years 10 months ago
Thanks for the comments.
amalzamani
17 years 10 months ago
declutterification
Edevold
17 years 10 months ago
It's almost a short poem with a parenthetical commentary