GLOBAL/NAPOWRIMO 2024 DAY 13
RECYCLING
Anything mid-century she shouted
slamming the door behind her as she left the house
I outbid some guy for a Chesterfield settee -
she didn't like that - leather stinks she screamed
so the Ox-blood sofa and the Queen Anne armchair
went back out as fast as they came into the house -
the next day she started to throw out all of her best shoes
first the knee length boots then her ankle boots and stilettos
all the leather and plastic and man made fabrics
went the same way into the recycling skip in the yard -
I couldn't find my football boots but I knew where to look
the same place that she slung everything else she didn't like -
her fifties kitchen remained intact along with the recipe books
it was my job of course to scrub the Yorkshire stone flags
delicate as they were she wouldn't hear of them being replaced
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