Cardigan

Granny knits me one every year!
It’s the Christmas gift from hell.
Lime green, mauve, pillar box red
with cute buttons on as well.

When I was a baby I didn’t mind
wearing the hand-knit three ply;
my cardies were soft and cosy and warm
though the necks were tight and itchy.

And when I was four and starting school
there was one in bottle green.
I wanted a sweatshirt like everyone else
but to say so would have been mean.

This year I’m bracing myself to ask
for a cool grey White Fox hoody
but already I hear the needles clack!
Pink mohair, mum says. Oh goody!