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

Imaginings that the signature and its history,
Detailed on the fighting brown front,
Shows your life in its fictional glory
Off in a Shambles.
Down the road from a fantasised Brick Lane,
The Queen of Hoxton held sixty happy heads in her hand
And more than one person in the crowd hoped for the stage,
Dismissing their lives, gasping testimonies aloud.
Is it the stress of longing? That led to
Inadvertent Crack hopes in dusty Paris hotel rooms,
Hiding from the sun in baths,
As your brother screams behind the door.
Ceramic that once had a patent shine is
Now the only vehicle for blood,
Split bone and worried eyes
All washed up in lies that stain.
A friendship built on reverie and White
Was lost in a delusion fuelled by Brown.
Which for the why, loved ones can’t understand,
You need to replicate soon and now.
The smashed Martell left a little seat for you
As hallucinations lift and you’re found alone, crying;
In a sultry bathroom that the suburbs own -
With shocks of someone else’s past in your hair.
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