Provenance has been established.
The lots are ready for an offer.
Remember priceless has two meanings now:
of beyond any value and no worth at all.
And isn’t that the truth?
The things we’ve both collected here
and traded back and forth—
appraised, cherished, thrown away.
We’ll start the bidding at zero dollars.
And listen, there’s no reserve price now.
In fact, keep your paddles lowered:
we’ll pay you to take these things as-is—
without a final, falling hammer—
off our calloused, bleeding hands.
Aaron Sandberg has appeared or is forthcoming in Lost Balloon, Flash Frog, Phantom Kangaroo, Qu, Asimov’s, No Contact, Alien Magazine, The Shore, The Offing, Sporklet, Crow & Cross Keys, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. A multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee,
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