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Justinemilward
26/F Rediscovering a childhood love of Poems
Queue I’ll take my cue and talk about waiting fidgeting, fumbling grumbling Waiting Short long Round the corner Queue. For hours Days Weeks Always But where would we be without the queue? keeps us in line Keep us in order
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Jun 3, 2019
Jun 3, 2019 at 5:00 AM UTC
Queue
She has taken Times test And stood till she was 80 The skin is thin on those old bones now She shivers And for the first time feels old and frail
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Mar 15, 2019
Mar 15, 2019 at 8:26 PM UTC
Old and Frail
It’s a postcard relationship Just a snapshot really Recognisable as the place doesn’t really truly look like it Wasn’t quite what was promised Never growing to that imperfect domestic familiarity Remaining pristine never getting beaten battered edges Not sealed by the mundane No deeper than a veneer It’s an image of where you have been A marker but little else Do you ever truly know the person? Can you be known ? It doesn’t work out So you visit somewhere new You flick through the gift shop And spin the postcard rack You pick the next card to send Lovely time, lovely weather The perfect image that never seems quite right And move on
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Mar 15, 2019
Mar 15, 2019 at 8:22 PM UTC
Postcard Relationship