Bangers and Flash
Charity bags, chewing gum, blue and
black pens,
Shopping bags, sweet wrappers, fluid
to cleanse,
Rubbish that’s been left –all by my
friends!
Paperbacks, Paperwork and all their
gen,
Something
that looks like a contact lens.
Library card, bus ticket and one
from a train;
Information from that holiday in Spain!
An umbrella, just in case of rain;
A memo reminder that I need to
retrain.
Why did I
start this - must be insane!
A missing screw on the seat at the
back,
A very important thing called a Jack.
An old cassette I can’t play with
good tracks;
An empty packet of much needed
Prozac.
The screw
must have been for the luggage rack.
A magazine that’s been completely
unread,
A used plaster from a knee that’s
bled;
Picked up my lost scarf, that’s red!
Shopping left in my boot with rye
bread,
A bluebottle
fly, trod on and dead.
Have even found some loose cash
It’s beginning to look like a
handsome stash!
(Could have been used for a future
cache);
Cleaning away with a cloth full of
Flash
Really needed
to give it a bash.
The out of date Rennies under the
seat,
A spreadsheet -my old signed off
worksheet!
Sticky paper and in it, a hairy old
sweet;
Used up tissues have been under my
feet!
Meant to give
the cat, that now mouldy treat.
A pair of small scissors, elastic
band;
Found knitted blue glove – for my
right hand!
A wrapper of sorts from Sainsbury’s
own brand
And right at the back, some mixed
mud and sand!
(Should have
sorted this out beforehand)
Am finding this all a bit too
bizarre -
It’s amazing what is found in a jam
jar!
A nearly all - eaten milk chocolate
bar.
The vacuum still sucking and needed
by far,
As I’m
working my way through cleaning the car.
Copyright
Linda Lawrence
23rd
December 2017
