Mila

what's left of Mila, she laughs oddly dumb, says she'll be a gonna, knows it's stupid to lie. just the line she hums, never figures out the timing, what about that offer, she drinks a little Rum, smokes rollups to follow, won't issue any more sighs, children late for school, skirt what's on the line, you might call her callow, more like a beaten drum, a candle's fading tallow, a winter's morning light. a decision beyond the ruins, its the strangest sight, to see beyond serfdom.

Lucy

Am not your bite, like the big sea, rolls tides in yellow light, what about your lover, with all her surly needs, has she got your number, to bring you to this site, if it's in your creed, celebrate what's yours in life, let a cliff of wonder, be witness to your ease, bathed in a high slumber, stones flowers birds in flight, know enough to see, what is your right, waves would carry you in, why wait for their levee, don't make it spinning fibs, lifetimes of greed.

Kamilla

She says We're going nowhere, doesn't want to moan, paints her toes railway slow, she has stripped my bones, has an Italian home, cares only for the show, states we're sliding further, like sinking you know, it's different in Val d'Isere, keeping up a cheerful tone, since our time in Rome, I try to ease the blow, life isn't really fair, with all your money on loan, think how others must share, she laughs at men with iphones, who try to create a glow, Dahling where will we go, us generous souls ?

Janine

Tunes jingle and play, my insides screech, grant me please another day, between home and missing you, another comes to tell me, feels the way he does, my tear streaked disgrace, lemon blue by the sea, shows the fruit I've tasted, how to kill the truth, by insufferable conceit, a conscience left to rue, maybe it's all too late, am so eager to delete, memories of his lovely face, what salvages my blues, saved from a coward's retreat, is knowing I won't say, what comes easy.

Irene

Make offers taste so sweet, no need for distance, look at my swollen feet, strained to my bones, wonder about his place, its heart beat a stone, buses churn along the street, blown in with the rain, this harbour is no retreat, alone with surly motto's, just what to say, will he simply condone, laugh at my testimony, subject driven day after day, ask what price offertory, when my jokes are torn, the useless games we play, ask him for money owed, he sneers at my beseecching, says he's in a cage, who is he to believe, lies across my face ?

Hailey

My good parts, he firmly states, are your good heart, just look at the moon, a spring tide today, everything's here too soon, am cool but my eyes dart, say wouldn't it be great, to rise like a lark, go and live in Vera Cruz, he's poised but waits, doesn't want more bad news, psychiatrists for a start, play down this emotion game, pay him and sell the car, he'll be back soon, my lover smiles and hesitates, kisses me like a bruise, tears me apart, am the fool you say, to let you go so far, colour floods my face.

Gia

Don't need a shrink, a new lover somehow, gives me time to think, just what can be disposed, like a bar in town, sells buns off a barrow, see what you're thinking, but who needs to know, he's 20 years younger finks, a display on their frowns, contains what i've shown, informs them who is owed, dancing on the brink, though a whole summer furlough, gather glasses smile and blink, my politics golden rose, its enough to flop down, heat drips off the shadows, shall i drink more drink, will they ship me now, my face like an ice rink, a lousy dumb clown ?