Here's to old things

and the space they inhabit

the way satisfaction with something old

crowds out new

crowds out more and more and more

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Here's to my truck

and the two lives it's lived

though once manufactured

two

         hundred

                   thousand

miles, moments

compacted on one steel frame

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Here's to old jeans

always, always better than new

patched, soft

jeans that know the shape of me

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Here's to repairing

Here's to maintaining

Here's to cherishing

Here's to less

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For me

sustainability

is an old red truck.

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