Why does Portugal love Snoopy? Why
do such a lot of other countries love cats?
Silly questions! I love Snoopy and cats.
Mt Fuji makes sense for Japan.
Are flowers / birds / fungi national?
What about lobsters? Bats?
I’m more used to monarchs (British)
notables from history (Australian)
images of public events.
In the middle of my childhood
when I started to be serious
(before I turned teenage frivolous)
Grandpa decided I’d collect stamps
like him; spent hours sitting with me
to explain their stories, their geography.
I didn’t care about small squares of paper.
I wanted books. It was books, not stamps,
brought messages, showed me the world.
Who uses stamps now? We email, we text.
But books continue to bring me mountains,
flowers, animals, cartoon characters …
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