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'unlike the arse feet are forward facing'

Growing up, Peter

lived next to a railway track
when trains thundered past his house
crockery rattled in the kitchen cupboards
windows shuddered

train quake

2.
Peter’s girlfriend Geraldine
feeds him pickled herrings

each one of Peter’s fishy kisses
provides Geraldine with half
her recommended daily intake
of Omega 3
fatty acids

————

on not revisiting
the past

unlike the arse
feet
are
forward
facing

pointed
in the direction

of greener
pastures

———-

in a bonfire in the backyard
the day after he moves out

his
pathetic
excuses

her
nagging

going up in flames

———————-

only joking

will death when it comes
have scales, claws?

when I’m gone

will my children miss me
will they reload

line me up, again, in their sights?

life’s so short
stilts would help a lot.

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© Molly Guy 2010

Molly has had three books published, a novel, a collection of short stories and book of micro-stories.