The Eccentric
He was known as an eccentric;
Saving all of those bolts in a bucket
and for what?
No one really knew, except himself.
He kept numerous old jugs and cartons
around the house,
as if they were valued treasures.
Old string and ropes that he’d saved,
were tied in numerous knots;
each knot, the same distance apart.
There were shelves in his garage,
sporting old prescription containers,
full of small nails and tacks.
Old cardboard from laundered shirts,
and gardening magazines, stacked high;
reeking of must and mildew.
No one really understood why he saved everything.
His yard, full of buckets, sticks and…
old nylon hose, and torn pieces of worn shirts,
hung from the rafters in his garden shed.
See, he was a crack’in gardener;
his tomatoes were staked;
tied to the sticks with the old rags and nylons.
The buckets, he carried to the neighbors,
filled with luscious produce
and everyone in the neighborhood,
savored, the fruits of his labor,
for years on end.
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