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I Know It’s Over
I was doing my degree in keeping secrets and stealing kisses,The Smiths whined on scratched vinyl in the background,and I wanted you more than I wanted to graduate.I’d stay up late,drinking to forget you after you’d gone,because I was a bastardisation of my father’s daughter,lost child, losing her shit in the valleys of your body,never…
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The Lonely Narcissist’s Lament
Every now and again,I get lost in the lustful looks you leave all across my body,and I find myself aflame,wondering if it would feel the same for your hands to replace your hungry eyes. That is normally the point where I start to cry. I’ve never been to war,but my past has fucked me up,and…
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Victoria Station
The storm clatters above in the sky,and I shuffle off the bus,face to face with the unknown.The streets seem to snarl at me,my body, howling with hunger,louder than the thunder I wander under.I start to wonder if I will ever be seen again,sinking into the shadows,captured by the clouded night,running from the rain as it…
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Everybody Out!
Sell me a space in the shadows,let me live behind a locked door,surrounded by the sweetness of unspeculative silence. I care for the kind of quiet that doesn’t guess,a lush loneliness,moonlight serenade of stillness. I am sleeping in the dreams of somebody else tonight,littered with letters,sewn onto my skin,because I stopped being convincing, somewhere in…
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You Were Just There
Last night,I played with fire,this morning,I woke up, drowning.It’s just the way of the world, my love,one day you’re an empress, the next you are empty,but last night, you said you loved me,and I ruled the world as a ghost for a moment,crown, trembling atop my tresses as you undressed me with nervous, nimble fingers.I…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 