Poetry
Issue #5
Hello, how are you today?
Hello, how are you today?
Cockles on a coaster have such
Strong colour.
Would’jaa like sugar in ya tea?
Squeeze just one bag please, repeat
Use 3 times.
I’ve heard of the credit crunch.
Kit Kat goes better.
Hang on! Student off to graze.
Helen has curly blond hair.
She looks like a child magazine model,
Straight out of a Freemans’ catalogue.
8 year olds shouldn’t know
They’re beautiful.
I cried on a bench at 10,
Cookies perched in foil atop
My prim, pressed knees.
The boy I liked was staring at me,
Hand-on-HIP-thumbnail-TEASED-by-teeth.
My first “Fuck off” to a
Real person that mattered,
As I triumphantly and indignantly grazed past,
With a deliberate, harder than necessary,
Chip of my shoulder.
Hiding in the girl’s,
Feels victorious.
Feeling of female
Superiority: Page 2.
Does he like me now?
Leila Green