Things That I Keep In My Pocket
An empty snail shell
My Gran’s budgie’s bell,
A lolly that’s had a few licks,
A fossil I found,
Deep underground
And a long list of party tricks.
A butterfly’s wing,
A strange sticky thing,
(which was once a sweet, I suppose),
A sachet of sauce,
(Opened of course),
And the squirter from the end of the hose.
A piece of old wire,
A bit of a tyre,
My big sister’s (lost) gold locket,
And a postcard for ME
From Burnham-on-Sea
Are the things that I keep …
In my pocket.