The plan, of course, was to keep on living.
That’s why three jars of preserves
And two dozen medications and supplements
Are part of the estate sale today.
The family album goes back
To 1881;
The rugs are from Persia;
The DVDs are eclectic.
Some things are tacky;
Others are frankly beautiful,
And everything is half-off today
Because next week is another sale,
Another home turned into a market
For indifferent strangers to wander through,
Some of them not far from their own estate sale,
And buying things, perhaps, to fill it out.
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