"Gathering Dust"

Imagine how proud you were
Poetry on sale for ten bob
An anthology called 'Versewagon'
That should do the job.
The date label's got an '01' number
And was published in 1982
Been sat on the library shelves
Without a single view.
Out of sight without an issue
Was it all a waste
Hours of thought putting pen to paper
Then designing old fashioned cut & paste.
Immortalised in print forever
Camper van drawn on the cover
I bet you never imagined my copy
Would never be picked up by another.
Until I borrowed your book
After 34 years on the shelf
The cliched moral to this story:
Poetry never brings you wealth.

Dulwich Poet 12th April 2016

(One of the booklets I borrowed from the Poetry Library had never been issued before...it was published in 1982!)