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Edgewise Junior Member
since 2008-03-23
Posts 19Chicago |
"If it ain't been in a pawnshop, then it can't play the blues..." - Qwel Dusty relics in menagerie formation on the shelves, sit decrepit and rejected by their former owners. They are detritus, wartime consumers having bought and sold them for pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and eventually dollars to survive. Such is the fickle fate of economies and livelihoods. Misunderstood as pieces of junk, the future of these antiques is uniquely bleak. At least an individual can feed a trees roots or remain alive in the memory of the collective. Anthropomorphic pity? No. It is recognition that the objects we take for granted are reflections on our past, and that these presents, knickknacks, trinkets, or "pieces of crap" are vessels, containing little pieces of peoples souls. I dare you to find one person who has not clutched a toy or tchotchke to their heart, even in the face of reason. Every pawnshop has its migrants, or its sirens singing out of cheap guitars, scarred by being dropped one too many times, abandoned because its owner couldn't hold a candle to the flavor of the month. The bottom line is bought and sold, for whatever the exchange rate says someone's memory is worth. Can you put a price tag on sentimentality, dressed in thrift shop rags, the smell of dust and age permeating it until it too is finally dragged, pushed, thrust onto the dusty shelf? In this day and age, what can't be bought and sold? Nobody ever finally looses their soul- they only piss away 99/100's of it. |
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chopsticks Senior Member
since 2007-10-02
Posts 888The US, |
Hi Edge, I like your rendering . I don’t know the form, but to me form dosen't really matter . I am interested in the content. and you have obviously worked on the content. But, I do have one question, what in the hell was Bukowski talking about when he came up with that quote ? |
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Brad Member Ascendant
since 1999-08-20
Posts 5705Jejudo, South Korea |
You keep the reader at a distance even with all of your talk of sentimentality and souls. Why not concentrate on one trinket or instrument and tell that story? |
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