the dusty acoustic guitar sits on the stand crooked by the wilted potted plant not watered for three months by a repaired rocking chair salvaged from the garbage not rocked in over a year above the red brick fireplace hangs a signed alvar lithograph fished from the trash bin - 16 of 275 of a man with a floppy hat playing a guitar next to the profile of an orange haired woman eye-catching framing the room on the fireplace hearth leans a 110-year old unloaded 22 caliber winchester also rescued from a residential cleanup dumpster next to a face-carved african walking stick dangling a safari hat hung by the shoe lace chin tie embroidered with words - pole pole kenya left a masai three legged stool carved from a single log inlaid with red green and yellow beads in the shape of a rhino the fireplace oak mantle under the alvar has two bronze standing heron - straight up, bending down to drink the corner tubular shelf a copy of leaves of grass by walt whitman and a king james bible from 1856 the framed lithograph floppy-hatted man nags to dust off the guitar 2.4 10/10
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