Thursday, March 15, 2012
House for sale
It is a big job
to empty a house,
where somebody
lived so long.
To go to the
basement,
to empty the attic,
all closets
and cupboards.
The best is
to bring a container
and throw in
everything mercilessly
Years and memories,
old furniture, dentures
and a walking stick,
papers and old letters,
paid and unpaid bills.
They are not
suddenly important.
Little memories,
small rock
from the shore,
or a river bank.
For clothes
they called
Salvation Army.
Somebody still
can wear
man's clothes.
Old scratched
and burned
pens and pots
are thrown
out of the windows
to the container.
The person expired.
The house is
FOR SALE.
Copyright (c) Marie Neumann
Pottsville, 2011
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