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Open Poetry #4

Auctions

RobertB
Senior Member

since 1999-09-26

Posts 1104
Champaign, IL

0 posted 1999-12-04 03:49 PM

Auctions

Memories on tables
and lives in baskets
spread before the crowd
and omnipresent auctioneer-
"One dollar, one dollar, OK now one-half
Do I hear two? two? Two! Sold!"
to hunters on the prowl
with bidding as the ammunition
and experience their guide
while widows and retirees
watch in hopeful expectation
and disbelief.

RB

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Nan

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

1 posted 1999-12-04 05:13 PM

I always have felt that estate auctions are really an invasion of someone's personal space.... It just doesn't settle right with me....

Balladeer

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

2 posted 1999-12-04 06:11 PM

Robert, you describe it well. I see it here a lot in Florida, auction heaven~

Ohme
Senior Member

since 1999-07-17

Posts 816
Texas

3 posted 1999-12-04 06:52 PM

Love the poem. Breaks me heart that my kids do not want my worthless treasures now. They could trash them after I am gone but what can I do with those treasures? I have no room for them??

RobertB
Senior Member

since 1999-09-26

Posts 1104
Champaign, IL

4 posted 1999-12-04 07:18 PM

I know this too ohme.....going to go through this next spring at grandma's house

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