Persephone
How can I please you mother,
Teacher, brother, peer reviewer, boyfriend,
Partner, husband, lover, friend from school, friend from gym,
Nurse at smear test, next of kin,
Midwife, surgeon, breast feeding trainer,
Waxer, taxer, therapist, student, colleague, nemesis,
Bank manager, life insurer, younger sis,
Builder, baker, my own maker, new born, new one, stepson,
Nan?
On the bus
I search the crowded bus for the schoolgirl
People shoulder to shoulder
Most soaked through from the teeming rain outside
I want to catch her before that moment
On that curve in the road just after the university
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