You made me a beautiful ring
Out of pipe cleaners
On the outward journey down
Blue green Blue green Blue green
In a gift shop at the railway station
I purchased three plastic animals for you
A horse a cow and a suckling pig
You chose numbers one and two
And I retained the third creature
The following day we visited a market town
And whilst there I engaged three pebbles
All richly painted in feral colours
I gave you the mouse fish
Which you gladly accepted
The others now reside in my study
Where poems such as this are written
And distributed around the world