Lizzy Burnam 🐞

Bargains galore! From your favorite building
material store. Plates from Rhode Island. 
Post cards as priced. One Austrian shilling
worth less than a dime. Winchester shotguns
and bedazzled bones to hang on the door
and protect your home. Sno-Jet toboggans
that held up just fine. A small leather pouch 
for $3.99. An old neon clock—no longer tells time. 
Oriental rugs and buffalo hides. Lehn & Fink jars. 
Jesus Christ Superstar on VHS. 
A malachite necklace to open your heart. 
A stringless guitar—this too could be yours! 
Marlboro adverts nailed to the wall, 
plus cigarette snuffers to pair with a cough. 
Drawers full of wrenches, bowls full of screws.
A large gilded mirror and maps of the world. 
Tritzel’s pretzels, crisp and crunchy. 
A hospital stretcher with squeaks in the wheels.
A lit chandelier Illuming dust. Studebaker bumper 
collecting rust. Guatemalan worry dolls. 
Paintings called “Breathe.” Braided barbed wire. 
Kokopelli. Blue hippopotamus, 
whole kitchen sinks. More porcelain teapots
than you could drink! Telefunken Opus—
works perfectly. A tin Barbie dollhouse. 
Mannequins dressed in Levi Strauss jeans. 
Oh dear, what a steal! Gee, look what I’ve found! 
A cock-a-too sculpture hung from the beams. 
Hand-painted vases and locks with the keys. 
A black horse and buggy (minus the horse). 
Buttons on buttons on buttons and more. 
Coca-Cola cans—unopened of course! 
A wood port-a-potty, door off the hinge. 
Civil War jackets and Navajo rings.
Moose antlers mounted by popcorn machines. 
Red wooden buckets. A rotary wing. 
Lucky Stripe matches. Flash figurines! 
Shell Handy Oil and créme de parfume. 
Just one tennis shoe—half off I presume?