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You probably have a war surplus
or government surplus store

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here as there is one everywhere.

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This is a poem about
the one in Portland

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and all the mysterious
things in it

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and what they suggested to me.

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"The War Surplus Store."

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"The man in the
war surplus store

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said, you had to
lie in the '20s when

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he sold shoes to women with
greater than size five feet.

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Now he sells to us
the men's clothes,

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clodhoppers, and creels with
a mature sense of honesty.

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He says his boss tells him
this is not a high class store.

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But what a cheap good life!

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It could provide mattresses,
thin, black and white stacked

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dailies or hammered beef steaks,
baklava or weighty tortes.

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Buy one and sleep.

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Or imagine you own
all its likenesses.

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Here is a buxom cubic
pillow with a slit

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to accommodate even a large
head tired of traffic.

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Yet I can't imagine backwards
to what it genuinely is.

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A frayed signal flag, certain
prayer rags, a Missouri radio

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revivalist sends for a
considerable donation.

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Towards the back,
the must thickens.

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Towards the corridor dressing
room between veteran banner

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and window.

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From there, one
can spy the boss.

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Nosed and mustached
like a Greek fisherman.

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Though wearing a pink
blotched sailor hat,

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camouflage if he fights
in rhododendrons.

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How good to be counted
among the surplus.

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The extra like cream that
never reached bottom.

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So the khaki is worn out
on women and working men.

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And we pay only small prices
for items from the tables

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as numerous as the states."

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