{"id":1353,"date":"2019-04-04T14:11:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T18:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2019-04-04T14:25:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T18:25:13","slug":"loose-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1353","title":{"rendered":"Loose Change"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some say that I’m not of these times.<\/p>\n
I’m lost in recollections.<\/div>\n
Some hear bells but I hear chimes.<\/div>\n
I don’t ask for directions.<\/div>\n
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Now some would like to define me<\/div>\n
as nothing but a hoarder.<\/div>\n
But I see things that they don’t see.<\/div>\n
And everything has order.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
While they see piles and tons of crap,<\/div>\n
each thing has special meaning.<\/div>\n
An eight foot stack of magazines<\/div>\n
they only see as leaning.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Each item has its history.<\/div>\n
My memories are not crimes.<\/div>\n
Inside each life’s a mystery.<\/div>\n
I got five hundred dollars in quarters and dimes.<\/p>\n
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There’s baseball cards and movie stills<\/div>\n
and paperbacks from France,<\/div>\n
a shoebox full of teenage frills,<\/div>\n
a corsage from the dance.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
I even saved the glove from when<\/div>\n
I shook a singer’s hand.<\/div>\n
I don’t even recall his name,<\/div>\n
but, man, he had some band.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
I even have the knife and fork<\/div>\n
saved from my dad’s last supper.<\/div>\n
And here’s the poison bottle’s cork.<\/div>\n
Not everything’s an upper.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
See, everything is organized<\/div>\n
by places, deeds and times.<\/div>\n
In tins and jars I realized<\/div>\n
I got five hundred dollars in quarters and dimes.<\/div>\n
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Here’s a sack of balls I caught<\/div>\n
while sitting in the stands.<\/div>\n
And check out all these postcards bought<\/div>\n
and sent from foreign lands.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Got photographs of family members<\/div>\n
going\u00a0 back a century.<\/div>\n
Yes, there’s some no one remembers.<\/div>\n
But to toss is blasphemy.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Boxes labeled, cartons tabled,<\/div>\n
bags and bags in many places.<\/div>\n
Yes my movements are disabled,<\/div>\n
but in all things I see faces.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Uncles used these decks of cards,<\/div>\n
grandmas wore these jewelry shards,<\/div>\n
Every word in this collection rhymes.<\/div>\n
I got five hundred dollars in quarters and dimes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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