Tuesday, 27 February 2024

27th February 2024

 



cold wind

driving the grey clouds

sheep dog


© Rachel Green February 2024


Martins the Newsagent

in Market Square, Redditch

caught me stealing a magazine

full of naked women.

I was thirteen at the time

and the police were called;

let me go with a caution

after visiting my parents.

Mum was furious, ashamed;

(what would the neighbours think?)

and forbade me to tell my best friend

to minimise the local stigma.

She didn't know it had been a dare

proposed by said best friend

and I kept the secret for fifty years.

Please don't tell her now.


© Rachel Green February 2024


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