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Tell Me How Long, Before The Last One?
I took twenty tests, (buzzfeed, not pregnancy, or coronavirus) because I thought it would be easier to leave you, if the internet told me. It sided with you, I assume they saw your eyes, or heard you sweetly singing off key, in the car, and thought “How could you ever, ever let him go?” but…
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Englishness
Can a dog born in a stable, call itself a horse? I call myself the name, that my English mother gave me, and I arrived to an audience, of doctors and nurses. The NHS is in a state, but they’re not dragging babies out in stables, yet, so am I a dog, or a horse,…
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Gardening
I grow white orchids, under the sunlight, that goes back and forth, arriving, leaving, surrounded by poppies, in the garden, waiting for the day, that they will surround me, as I approach you, glowing, going towards heaven on earth, You are watching me, morning coffee, keeps your hands warm, until I return to them, safe…
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The Man I Love
I awake again, with the same stranger, capturing the night before, and the premonition that followed, on dead evergreens, that I keep under our pillows. I imagine a club, where he is my only patron, spotlight, smoke for my halo, watching me whisper The Man I Love, as he waits, with his wine, for me…
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Message
When I woke up this morning, I smiled, your presence, still present in my mind, where you’d been, last night in my dreams, and there you where again, a lone notification, that broke through the barriers of “Do Not Disturb”, because both digitally, and literally, you are my favourite.