Sunday, March 11, 2012
Jim Bennett
Charity Shops
today we
tour the charity shops of Heswall
wander from
Aged to Oxfam from Roy Castle to Heart foundation
(of course I do not go into Bernardos
I have never forgiven them)
this trip is for books for the discarded
tree pap bought for other peoples lives
but which were read or more often not
and then discarded sent as a donation
we pass the clothes rails
and here in help the aged
three shelves which could be an art work
bric-a-brack the still rapped bathroom gifts
the broken the unwanted the unused
the inconsequential
a small brown pot a shell encased box
a broken ornament of a fairy child
a desk tidy with parts missing
a frame with places for pictures of family
and friends all spaces blank
with a note saying “your picture here”
things that mark out
map style and comfort life
but when they end up here as junk
mean nothing to anyone else
unless of course you happen to be
looking for an art work
# posted by June Clitheroll : 3:14 AM
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