Keeping "Broken" Things

Sundays are for some people a chance to look at preloved and broken things or is it to avoid housework, though perhaps others have been efficient with their time and done it earlier in the week.

There were three lovely old cameras here, their black and chrome beauty is that they possibly require fixing so maybe would need placing on a treasure shelf not ever to be "fixed". Two were £5 each the other a £38 Agfa. Ah, so pretty, but moving on. I already do too much of this.

I will keep
broken
things:

In my house
there
remains
an honoured shelf
on which
I will keep
broken things.
Their beauty
is
they need not
ever
be "fixed".
- Alice Walker, from "Broken Things"