✬ accumulate

there's a rule I have, for newly acquired or bought clothes

if something goes into the wardrobe,

then something has to come out

there is good reason ....

my poor heaving rail could take no more yesterday

when I dutifully put away the ironing

the rail has always been slightly too short for the fixing

so when it was full to capacity *and weight*

it flexed and ≪crash!≫

*well actually it was a sort of 'phlumph'*

dresses and trousers in a heap

setting to pull them all out and re-hang those that had come adrift 

I noticed a pair of old wooden hangers

they were left in a cupboard, in a house I lived in as a little girl

since then they've travelled with me from wardrobe to wardrobe

I've always kept them, not for sentimental reasons

but because they are so damned durable!

one of them has a name on it

she must have lived in that house too

thank you elsie james