Treasure

She held up the matinee jacket
“what do you think…..?”
Smartarse -ness felt an urge: “ the dingoes will love it ”
flippancy deferred, deferred in response to the tone
“I saw it and knew my granddaughter had to have it.”
Pedigree babywear
…… the expensive end of cheap
or
cheap end of expensive.

Occupying the margins of sociology,
from the bleak suburbs
lifelong renter – property ownership : sky pie
divorced, years ago
marriage, brief and passing
one daughter raised single-handedly, hardscrabble.
A cleaner, with her designer tiny
pushed flat against full-sized bust,
brought to mind Mrs Harris and her dress. “I got it on lay-by,
it only took four pays.”