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(The next few are not really poems, just a line I want to use somewhere one day) 23:6 Eat with your mouth full.

23:5 Lap up the rage with every smooth stroke. Or perhaps you hit and splash to target passer-bys so they can seep in the irritation while yours drains away. Perhaps you’re that type of person.

23:4 ‘I’ll bring it right back,’ said the embarrassed smile, even then knowing we both knew the lie it was giving.

23:3 Plan a day together while you fall asleep, too tired from entertaining others that your attention for me is gone. An unimportant afterthought you don’t need to conserve energy for.

23:2 Strip the room to ordinary once more but now it feels empty, barren, too big, too bare, too exposing. What is left when the shimmer disappears? Who are you in dismal winter?

23:1 New year, new me. Less of me? Long to be different, thinner, wiser, better, something I’m currently not until I change into someone else, someone who will also long to be less of herself.

22:110 I saw Mama kissing Santa Claus and I don’t know how to feel. I love my daddy, but Santa Claus, wow! I’ll get all the presents I want! Would we live at the North Pole, could I play with the elves? But how would I see Daddy again? And won’t he be angry thatContinue reading “22:110”

22:109 Dear William/employee number 626,             As always we were delighted to receive your application to be considered for promotion. We’d like to remind you that your current role as an elf is an important and noble position and we value all our employees who make our business possible.             However the responsibilities as aContinue reading “22:109”

22:108 Santa and his hippos are a strange and worrying sight, their jiggly flight in the sky would cause anyone a fright! They land on the rooftops and wake all inside (unfinished)