in the sun on my shoulder its light plastic touch polythene wrapper gaily fluttering in the wind breathing its last light of freedom before consigned to lifelong prison standing damp dreaming to dry but for that fleeting time it rests on my shoulder comforted on flesh and bone on the brief journey from the shop to a nook enjoying the glances of passerby curious my carrying it a hint of boast in my gait flaunting as if a magic wand the floor scrubber transient yet eternal a glorious poem material a poem name and a man's declaration