Thrift Store Meanderings by Wayne Russell

The thrift store is dank and dusty, 

full of relics of someone else's past.

Chipped china sets and discarded 

tube style televisions.

Rusted wrenches and toolboxes,

broad stripped neck ties, and VHS 

tapes marked .25 cents each.

Over in the corner hangs a tweed

suit coat, it's ghost beckon me to

try it on for size, alas vintage 70's 

checks were never my thing.

I stroll past in a daze, books seated 

upon dilapidated pine shelves seem

to be reaching out for me.

I can hear the echos of Hemingway

and Wilde reverberating throughout 

the isles of my thrift store oasis.

"The Old Man and the Sea" and "The 

Importance of Being Ernest" are both

on my book shelf at home. 

I sigh and pluck them from the obscurity

of the bottom shelf anyway.  

The voices have been silenced, I meander 

towards the till to make my payment.

Wayne Russell is a creative writer born and raised in central Florida, he has been doodling with words and art since the age of five. He was first published at the age of nineteen in 1989 via snail mail, fast forward to 2007 he was published via 21st century technology.