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Involuntary Disposal 

ARC: Etc: Arts: Marketing as Life: The Old Man and His Garage

ARContribution by George M. Zinkhan

       “The Old Man and His Garage”

"You might as well get some kerosene
    and put that whole garage

To the torch," the old man told his
    daughter over breakfast.

Later that afternoon the old man
    looked out his bathroom window

 To see sixty-five years of accumulated
    papers and memories

Blowing here and there across the yard
    and out into the street.

"What the hell do you think you're
    doing?"

Shouted the old man to his daughter,
    cleaning out the garage.

Detroit, Michigan
April 1988

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