I am not

A sale of

Buy one

Get one free

I’m the bonus

Product on the

Item you really

Wanted that you’ll

Put in a cabinet

Anyway somewhere

In the house and

Forget about me

I am not

Some easily redeemable

Code or card

Where all you

Have to do to pay

Is just slide me in

I’m a goddamn

Mail-in rebate

Everyone always

Forgets to mail in

Until one day

You remember

When you’re desperate

For cash

And you race to

That place

I was left

Ecstatic at finding

Some use for me at last

And I’m gone.

You must have

Thrown me away

In one of your

Manic moments of

Cleaning the house

For a full day

The kind where

You don’t even

Look at what

You’re throwing away

The kind where

It just feels good

To hear pieces

Of yourself

Hitting the trash

As you purge

Your life

Of all the pretty things

You once thought

You wanted

That are now part

of your past

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