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A Writer's Wonderland [PDF] - University of Portsmouth

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Fight<br />

There’s this polaroid <strong>of</strong> an old couple,<br />

laying dusty in a dusty antique shop;<br />

it’s got a measly price scrawled across the back <strong>of</strong> it<br />

in pencil.<br />

and I see us there,<br />

with the world brimming in our eyes;<br />

forty years’ time.<br />

I wanted you to fight.<br />

I took a pencil sharpener to my chest,<br />

Raimy Large<br />

Second year Creative Writing and Film Studies student.<br />

and I watched as the tiny spirals <strong>of</strong> muscle flake away, and settle on the ground.<br />

It reminded me <strong>of</strong> the time that<br />

I strung up every piece <strong>of</strong> you,<br />

around my being,<br />

pride welling in my chest;<br />

wrapped in this purple shawl.<br />

And how my eardrums,<br />

twiddled their thumbs,<br />

waiting for your call.<br />

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