FROM TRASH TO STASH

 for Lila

                    I know a lady who cannot abide
                    Good cast-off items set at the curbside
                    And destined to be hauled away as trash,
                    Knowing that they’ll so soon be gone to smash,

                   And yet that means that stashed in her garage
                   And dining room and elsewhere this hodgepodge
                   Has taken hostage her once tidy home,
                   Through which she wends as in a catacomb.

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