Legacy

Strange,
the family things
that stay.

Lux – Minute Minder
kitchen timer –
and a stapler –
Swingline faded near away.

Both arrived on Earth
long years before my birth –

then sifted into childhood
crayon-memory:

(ding!) –
dinner’s ready! –

then to adolescence’
crushing clunk:
the push of metal teeth
into an arduously typed
ninth grade essay.

I use them
every day.




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