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A house has strange expenditures
it consumes cash intended for cameras
books music and magazines 
it insists instead on lawn mowers and ladders.
In January ’87 I bought a shovel too
it cost 8 hours to clear the house-rich drive 
eventually I welcomed the devil himself 
if he brought a snowblower into the yard.
County Stores charged hundreds more than Sears
but same-day delivery was free
it didn’t snow again that season
the Ariens weathered 26 years.