Estate Sale

Cheryl Wheeler

Estate sale today, from 1 o'clock to 4

You go and get ready, I'll go start the car

Better to be early, then we'll be the first in line

And you know how I love this, it's amazing what you'll find



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Going through dead people's houses

Wonderful things they have collected

Open the drawers and trunks and closets

Don't leave a corner uninspected



I'll head for the kitchen you check out upstairs

Old post cards and pens and blue Fiesta Ware

Shaving mugs and winged eyeglasses, giant plastic pins

Linen suits and flowered dresses, I'm so glad we got in



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They just don't make 'em like this

It's an incredible prize

We can hang it in the kitchen

She was just your size

It's a beautiful frame

And the picture's all right

Salt and pepper airplanes

And that deco light



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Tonight we'll go home and sort through our array

We'll find the best spots to put things on display

You can't get this great stuff anymore, I don't know why

But I bet we'll make some young strangers happy when we die



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