too giving

remember all the birthday,
anniversary, retirement collections,
I dutifully added to, in my youth,
from sixteen years old,
in all the employments I've been
and I've collected for others,
and made personal cards,
I remember at school, because my
birthday is in the holidays..it got
forgotten, and I've never been stingy,
I've done with this work colleague
rubbish, as when I fell seriously ill,
no work colleague did anything kind
for me, only my true life long friends,
So now I return to work,
and when they come rattling that
collection tin they can shove it
where the sun dont shine...