Mack Hall
mhall46184@aol.com
The Garage-Sale
Camera
Surviving
the polyester Seventies
Its
hippie guitar-strap moldy and frayedCompromised by corroded batteries
But solid, elegant - Japanese-made
Quite
worn with use, some family’s recorder
Of
parties, poses, playing in the summer-yardWhen children now grown lined up in order
And happily grinned for Grandpa’s Christmas card
First
Communion, the trip to Disneyland
A wedding with the groom in a purple tuxA daughter marching in the high school band –
A garage-sale camera, only ten bucks
Families,
neighbors, puppies, classmates, friends -
Living
forever through this old camera’s lens
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