A Poet's Garage Sale

I’m having a garage sale Though I don’t have a garage. Come check out all my offerings – You’ll see a strange montage. I have similes and metaphors So old that they’re clichés. There are sentences and verses Budding writers can rephrase. From a stack of nouns quite towering Are so many you can choose; Mix and match with all my adjectives – You simply cannot lose. There’s a vat of verbs just waiting, Some with adverbs still attached; And a box of prepositions, With its lock no longer latched. There might be a spare conjunction Hiding underneath the rhymes; As for interjections – Ha! They’re rare as Mercury-head dimes. Yet if you pay me a visit, You might find the words you need; I’ve been cleaning up my clutter And there’s good stuff, guaranteed. So come pick through my possessions ‘Cause I’m lightening my load. Then feel free to write a sonnet Or a limerick or ode. For garage sales held by poets Are, to me, the most inviting, Since your purchases may point you To the pathway paved with writing. Ilene Bauer September 6, 2012 (this was accidentally deleted from my poems list, so i wanted to reenter it)