"Forever"

Sharing Stories

December 16, 2021 at 10:12 a.m.

...by Ariele M. Huff

“Forever”

“Everything’s-for-Sale” sale.
Ten-dollar local antique—so frail.
Newcomer leaving for a better place…
wants to leave without a trace.
Didn’t read our roadside sign:
“Come as you are” (“You’re fine”…
as locals say to me all the time.)
“Come as you are” quoted in Nirvana fame.
Even Kurt Cobain,
his park— damp, dark & dank,
knew Aberdeen was heaven,
though he went there at 27.
I swept away cat box dust—
to include our treasure…
that we’ll have for now or forever…
till it or we are dust.
And thanks, departing newcomer…very much.

Ariele Huff loves her some Aberdeen, Washington living.

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