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Writer: Aqeel ParvezAqeel Parvez

her face was a

dali painting of

last night's ket sesh


with a cigarette

tucked over her ear

and a nose piercing like

one of those hipsters

no in fact she was

one of those hipsters

an oversized t-shirt

that had dried puke

dribbled down the front

covered her belly fat


it said 'feminist' in

block capitals


I guessed she was

at the art school

or doing a degree

in literature


and I didn't bother

in asking

or wanting

or anything more


while a pigeon was eating

last night's leftovers

dinner meat n chips



This poem was previously published in the chapbook 'The Streetlights are Beckoning Nirvana' (Analog Submission Press)

 
 
 

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