Cereal Box Toys
by Joseph Marsh
When I was young
A boy gave me
A toy
One of the ones you got
From cereal boxes
When cereal boxes had surprises
And I didn’t know what gay was
But I knew that toy meant more
To me
Than anything else in the world.
When I was grown
And packing my room into a box
I came across a toy
A dragon pendant from a cereal box
And remembered that boy
And how that toy meant more
To me
Than anything else in the world
But I had grown and fallen
And he had grown
And hadn’t.
Joseph Marsh is an emerging gay writer who studied English and Creative Writing at the University of Lincoln. He has been published in Pomme Journal’s Put Into Words, My Love anthology of stories and poems, Ghost Heart Literary Journal, Honey Magazine and several other places. His interests include, History, film, and building Lego. He is a Senior Fiction Editor for the literary journal The Lincoln Review and Vice President of the University of Lincoln Spoken Word and Creative Arts society.