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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