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Garage Sale Item #2
Elaine Heveron

Fifteen years later,
the divorced woman
places the turquoise neclace
on the corner of a table
at a garage sale.

A young woman passing by
lifts up the neclace,
surprised at its weight,
asks "How much?"
The divorcee shrugs--
"It needs a new life --
twenty five cents."

The young woman passing
by immediately gives
the divorcee 2 dimes
and a nickel,
puts on the neclace
and wears it for
the rest of her life.

Elaine Heveron has published one chap book of poetry entitled, "Standing Room Only in my Heart," and is presently taking poetry classes with Todd Beers in Rochester New York. By day she supports 28 engineers and scientists at Xerox. She is recently married to a wonderful poet, Louis Faber, who, by day is an attorney at Xerox.
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