Wednesday 18 April 2018

18th April 2018


daisies
stretching to meet the sunshine
honesty


© Rachel Green 2018

Fuck this. Fuck You
Ann St Johns screams at her dad
because he's banned her from driving
and she needs to party.
Young ladies shouldn't swear.
He speaks against a stream of inventive
from his seventeen year old
foul-mouthed daughter
wondering where he went wrong.
His wife is upstairs
after one of her migraines
and the twelve year old Sally
has turned the telly up
to get past the headphones
she wears for her laptop games.

In another street
in sight of the first
if it wasn't for the old pipe factory,
Emily Matthews threads a needle
and sews her daughter's mouth shut.


© Rachel Green 2018

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