Personal History

True story

In my hand lies an old album with newspaper clippings
Dated as old as 1947 and as recent as 1970.
I can read the ads, cartoons, stocks, sports, politics,
Or mailed-in poems and recipes from these articles.
I’m holding this old album that I found in
An antique shop downtown where it sat on a shelf.
To think that the people who once had this in their hands
Collected these clippings, presumably with personal value attached.
No price can match sentiment, and now I’m holding their treasure
With a peeling sticker marking it down from $10 to $3