NaPoWriMo 2022 – Day #19: ramblings

We have hidden storage zones
underneath the bed platform
where dead stuff is buried
to be returned for future use –

or sometimes just withdrawn –
one step away from donation
to Goodwill, or the nearest
homeless shelter that needs it.

There’s an old iMac boxed there,
mementos from foreign travel,
and trinkets from my retirement
never officially celebrated.

(How much…