Loved Ones

Bought from Mughal Arts

but made in The Potteries

for the first chain stores

and their buy one get one free

schemes, this “antique”

1920s dinner plate with leaf

stalk design will end up in

the belly of an eight-legged

heirloom sideboard of an

earlier vintage, joining there

a tasty toaster, a cracked

ice bucket, and a box of plastic

curtain rings that have been

thrown away more than once

but faithfully came back.

You’ll die in their arms.