Pocket Fuzz

"Fine used clothes"
The handwrit sign proclaims
Its scotch tape turned yellow
Holding firm for maybe
Another season
Window shopper entertainment
Or
Halloween bargain hunters classic find

Haberdasher's dummy
Donned in black
With top hat and cane
Decked with placid expression
The mute echo of once finery
Now but an expressionless welcome
Save the ever faithful
Tinkle bell alert
Announcing seekers of...

Racks of past lives
Some threads worn bare
Offering limp remembrance of
Celebrations past

Others washed
Cleaned
Starched
At full attention
Their hangers like unblinking color guards
Holding rigid their watch

In the back
Frayed collars huddle reluctant
Their dress-cinched-tight history
Awaiting the catacombs of Good Will
The shopping cart of the homeless

Cooling the "all" of time lived
Whirr the table fans
Friction's ever-content wisdom
Grating alert consciousness
The learning of white
Through the  experience of black
Sending dust mites scurrying
For passage

Some
For travel
Others
The wise
Finding sheltered attachment within

Pocket fuzz
The quintessential ticket out
Freedom from another Death's estate
Another renewable cycle
Of forgetfulness