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Sapphic Summer
Peeking through the window, like a nervous, naughty infant, with a disappointing school report, I saw you. I watched you. I waited, not by choice, but by command of my confidence (or lack thereof) that insisted on spending several minutes, wondering why someone so delightful, decided to take me out for dinner. I watched you,…
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I’ve Been Made Up For Several Hours, With Nowhere To Go
Saffron on my skin, soft and sentimental, sensitive to the time, sending signals with my actions, seeking answers on your intentions. Seven PM seems about right, so why am I nervous? Surely soon meant soon? Seven wasn’t a sure thing, sure. Neither was today, so, maybe I’m building myself up, so high, just to fall,…
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Lost Girls In Lorries
Screams are plastered on the walls, like her blood, his spit, his handprints, on her face, raging and red. Nobody hears, because nobody listens, and nobody looks for girls like her, in the dark, dingy night. Shut up. It wasn’t meant to be like this. Take your clothes off. Nobody told her it would be…
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Grief Is A Girl’s Best Friend
Leaving at my own leisure, I treasure the fresh air, the silence, until I realise it is an illusion, and I am in a revolving door of revolting devotion. Mary Magdalene, grieving over Jesus, and all that could have been, over and over again, bracing for breaking, the way I always do, because I can’t…
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Nature Is A Language. Can’t You Read?
Thatcher’s dead, but I’m still not satisfied. I join her in the dirt, with broken promises and stars in my eyes, my dreams don’t cast shadows, and I live in a neighbourhood where good people don’t go. He joins me, and I smoke all his cigarettes, while we listen to The Smiths. He asks me…