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All Hail The Great Sultana
All Hail The Great Sultana
Consider the sultana
The jewel in my porridge
It’s not the kind of fruit
That you can just go out and forage
It started out in life
A bulbous juicy grape
But sat out in the sun too long
And now it’s changed it’s shape
It’s dark, wizened and wrinkled
Like it’s fallen from your nose
And probably looks like your granny
When she’...
Friday 24th April 2020 12:42 pm
Strange Fruit
Strange Fruit
“what is beautiful?”
asks Eliza
for she thinks
that she is not
because they tell her
she is not
“why are they hurtful?”
as if the outside
somehow sullies
what is inside
and insinuates the sour
to what is sweet
“why do they ridicule?”
the size the shape
the roughness of my skin
the growths
the fact my spine
Is out of...
Monday 4th June 2018 12:36 pm
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