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Birthday Wish
I’m your beautiful birthday girl, all wrapped up in a bow, waiting to be undone, leaning against my garden wall, waiting for a kiss that never comes, because we live in a lockdown world, where loneliness is the only constant, no contact is the contract we sign, for some faraway fantasy of eventual freedom. I…
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It’s My Birthday Tomorrow
The sun has danced with the earth three hundred and sixty four times since I last let go of a year. I am in my garden, a new one, since it was last January 31st, and the sun has already said goodbye. The next time I see her, I will be a new woman, an…
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Family Ties
Blood can be so thick, but it never flows easy, water, you can trust.
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I Don’t Cry Anymore
My eyes have been dry for such a long time, sandy beaches, suddenly deserts. The sun sets as I settle in your lap, dry eyes, with no tortured tears, deep in a trance, hypnotised by how you hold me, so soft, so secure.
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You Can’t Fuck A Flag
The high street is six feet under, with some petrol garage flowers trodden into the dirt above her face. I am waiting for the Daily Mail’s daily reminder that I am to blame, for being a millennial, who never shops, is sick of renting, and has the blood of dirty immigrants running through her veins.…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 