Sunday, 29 January 2023

Flavia

If you cook with gas, turn the flame up, make sure there’s a blast, face like a stone, it’s the way you love, beats going alone, never one to entrap, like a chicken plucked, you won’t flail and collapse, who call you the most, then roll in the muck, stay at their bedposts, they drink wine aghast, say they’re out of luck, too tired for holy Mass, tell them to go home, consider them fluff, picking at your soul, let them earn a buck.

Saturday, 28 January 2023

Emilia

Looks like you rule, working the bread line, regarding the other fools, think you're great, at other's demise, stop before it's too late, won’t make you feel good, what’s going on inside, face a block of wood, yet once again, eyes dance like fireflies, let them have their say, it might seem poor gruel, these cooked over lies, and all that you do, but here in this game, you race for your life, who holds the reins, ask yourself why?

Friday, 27 January 2023

Dahlia

You'd gamble everything, my sister says, anything for a tiny waist, around your bones, do you ever retain, the time we spent alone, but you shied away, chased lovers like the rain, snuffled at break of day, going out as you came in, couldn't see another way, smoking your Marlboro thins, maybe when you moaned, danced in sunlight sashayed, never needed to atone, can't you feel the rage, when us little ones groaned, not for us mother's praise, out there on our own.

Thursday, 26 January 2023

Christiy

My lover asks, were you ever born, how come nothing lasts, don’t you have ghosts, dreams that you’ve scorned, won't leave you alone, I adjust my mask, stifle a yawn, I know my own past, whoever throws stones, at what they've spawned, stops them from growing, I like our chit chats, what is to be known, where you hang your hat, you are in my bones, nothing gets torn, everyone needs a home, coat stands in the hall.

Wednesday, 25 January 2023

Bethany

While you smile easy, know just what to say, I’m lost on the street, a high heeled slumber, stones, wreaths, holidays, it makes you consider, when a spirit’s released, without hope or shape, one day it will please, do I have your number, while you dance and shake, a life rolled in thunder, my insides screech, striped flagpole sway, you’re drunk in the breeze, a slurred whatever, that you’re a disgrace, to me you’re a wonder, I gather up your face.

Antonia

You ask if we’ll cope, if you could only help, to get back our home, why make us suffer, a sister of the pen, no need for your buffers, stay out of our zone, you might mean well, but we’re better alone, don't bring in our mother, for your next best seller, you are not a duffer, we’ll roll with the blow, on bar stools and leather, our skin might need soap, with long gait and bend, we won’t be tethered, to you or your friends, all royalties bereft.

Monday, 23 January 2023

Zac

What do you care, pour salt on my laces, tell me what to wear, your tunes are not easy, stamp on my cases, spin me in the breeze, say I need to share, offer no kissing places, why hold me here, in chains to the sea, betrayed by your gaze, a soaked serendipity, grant me what's fair, howl to your greatness, lips that snare, down swollen streams, what you throw away, oh, so sugar-sweet, but will you escape?