Collectors item

Collectors Item.



The metallic leaf on the bookshelf made
of copper, badly made too, is dark flecked
from neglect; I could polish it till it looked
like gold but why this pretence? Should have
thrown futile scrap out long ago, together
with other useless bits & pieces picked up on
the road. The leaf doesn’t even have a memory
attached to it; was just there, on the shelf, near
paperbacks with loose pages and the dictionary
that has lost the pages Y and Z. They take up
place for proper books, posh ones, imitation
leather and not worn out by extreme handling.
I’ll get around to clearing up one day; it will be
hard like losing old friends.