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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Eulogy / Elegy

Eulogy / Elegy

Sizemore, Jay

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1548057622
ISBN13: 9781548057626
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 12 2017
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Elegy for the reel-to-reel I found at the Goodwill Someone's hands loved you: not mine. Your handle frayed, your buttons worn, lid cloth stained, with one working hinge. Your smell, like a wine cellar where dusty barrels have kept warm circuits and bottles labeled Interview x or y. The years have left you struggling to remember the function of a microphone, the longevity of magnetic tape, voices carried like hummed songs in plastic throats or electrostatic. Now, your hiss is an imperfection, a breath drawn through a cigarette, mechanics like advanced spinal stenosis, reducing a proud father to a cane, permanent bed rest until decay. Your weight was a conversation, now a novelty for the silent.

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