Letters to the Editor

Poem: Long-Time Alaska Family Garage Sale

Early birds welcome! Come shop with us

On Wednesday and Friday

and grab the best deals!

Everything must go

Our family is breaking up.

We never want to see each other again.

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Must be out of the house in two weeks

We couldn’t agree on who gets what

so you get to decide.

All sorts of Alaskan art like

Barabara Lavallee framed prints

Please someone take the

mounted moosehead with antlers.

We couldn’t let Dad have it

because he loves it so.

To go with it you gotta have

the large moose antler

with an eagle face carving on it

and a wall hook on back.

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There’s plus-size jeans.

Mom got too big for Dad!

And the gossip bench

with drawer and shelf

Oh the stories this bench could tell.

A fence post digger

to fix the fence Dad never got to

and brother refused to do either.

Toyota 2019 Sienna front driver and passenger floor mats

from my car I totaled into the tree at the end of the street.

I don’t know who would want

the fossilized Oreodont skull

from the Badlands in South Dakota,

but we don’t want it.

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Someone will love this Queen sleigh bed

that’s really king-sized

but not big enough anymore

for Mom and Dad.

Sorry, there are no deliveries.

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— Eric Gordon Johnson

Anchorage

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