The Oxfam Shop book section <br />Had the usual array, <br />Ancient road maps, Jeffrey Archer, <br />Three copies of the Guinness Book of Records <br />The Idiot's Guide to Windows 95 <br />And lots of copies of those little green books <br />Which the Jehova's Witnesses give away. <br />Cook-books in abundance, <br />Mills & Boom galore <br />Shelves of forgettable fiction, <br />One-time best-sellers and a few old Penguins <br />Like Lady Chatterly's Love and Nineteen-Eighty-Four. <br />Two Spanish-English Dictionaries, <br />A Ford Anglia owner's manual, <br />A blood-stained DIY book <br />And - of course - The Rose Growers' Annual. <br />But, as ever, tucked away, unobtrusive and thin, <br />Overlooked by everyone like a plain biscuit in an assorted-biscuit tin, <br />I came across at last <br />A little book of poetry, a school book from the past. <br /> <br />And I bought it.<br /><br />Terry Donovan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/oxfam-shop/
