a box of one hundred
saving for stamps
© Rachel Green October 2025
An infants' school activity in class
generates excitement as a child
strips of paper and paint that smells like ass
and strung in chains with globby glue reviled.
I badgered Mum to make some more at home
but knowing how I was with paint and paste
she borrowed from the Pearl Insure and Loan
and bought pre-coloured strips with undue haste.
Once I began, the coloured streamers grew
and stretched from our front door to kitchen sink
Mum took me to the village shop anew
and bought more packs to keep me quiet, I think.
The house that year was full of paper chains
which Dad took down and burned between the rains.
© Rachel Green October 2025
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