Saturday, September 8, 2012

The Garage-Sale Camera



Mack Hall
mhall46184@aol.com


The Garage-Sale Camera

Surviving the polyester Seventies
Its hippie guitar-strap moldy and frayed
Compromised by corroded batteries
But solid, elegant - Japanese-made

Quite worn with use, some family’s recorder
Of parties, poses, playing in the summer-yard
When 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 tux
A 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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