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

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