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A Goodwill store is a story of America
All the discarded things we never needed
A selection of “The World’s Best Secretary” mugs
A thirty-year-old cell ‘phone without a base

Plastic trophies from bubba golf tournaments
A ceramic Japanese lady made in China
Books organized only as “hardbound” and “paperback”
Except for the shelf of gimme-money preacher-books

Poor women shuffling through the debris for clothes
A Goodwill store is a story of America