All The Stuff

by Bill McCloud

You can have that for fifteen cents
an old Dennis the Menace doll
And that for fifty cents
a chemistry set
And thirty cents
the board game Clue
Just take these
the baseball cards
And a nickel each for all of
these Classics Illustrated comics

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At the end of the block
her husband stops each car
buying all the stuff back
Our boy was just eighteen you know
(mumble) Dong Tam (mumble)
very brave (mumble)

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That evening he’ll replace all of it
The next morning she’ll put it
back out on the tables and
stick the sign back in the ground