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Picaroon Poetry - Issue #16 - May 2019

Featuring work by Dave Stacey, John Short, Bethany W Pope, Steve Xerri, Judith Kingston, Jules Elleo, Tim Taylor, Sam Rose, meeah williams, Elijah Welter, Matt Nicholson, Paul Vaughan, Brittany Atkinson, Rupert Locke, Robert Ford, DS Maolalai, Rosie Barrett, John Dorroh, Stefanie Bennett, Pat Edwards, Jenna Velez, Cara L McKee, Beth O'Brien, Holly Day, Clive Donovan, John Leo, Richard Livermore, Sam Grudgings, Dan Cardoza, Mark Lee, Ronny Ford, Julie Sampson, Darren C Demaree, Stephen Bone, Marcus Severns, and Joe Williams. Picaroon is, as ever, lovingly edited by Kate Garrett.

Featuring work by Dave Stacey, John Short, Bethany W Pope, Steve Xerri, Judith Kingston, Jules Elleo, Tim Taylor, Sam Rose, meeah williams, Elijah Welter, Matt Nicholson, Paul Vaughan, Brittany Atkinson, Rupert Locke, Robert Ford, DS Maolalai, Rosie Barrett, John Dorroh, Stefanie Bennett, Pat Edwards, Jenna Velez, Cara L McKee, Beth O'Brien, Holly Day, Clive Donovan, John Leo, Richard Livermore, Sam Grudgings, Dan Cardoza, Mark Lee, Ronny Ford, Julie Sampson, Darren C Demaree, Stephen Bone, Marcus Severns, and Joe Williams.

Picaroon is, as ever, lovingly edited by Kate Garrett.

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Cara L McKee<br />

If there’s a difference<br />

I think if there’s a difference between us<br />

that it’s the way women learn to be less<br />

even while we’re saying that we’re more.<br />

It’s not true you know, that we have to fit<br />

ourselves into little conforming boxes<br />

so that someone will like us. It’s not true.<br />

Think who you like. Is it because they’re good?<br />

Or is it because they tell mucky tales<br />

and laugh a lot with that ugly laugh that<br />

you can’t help but join in with. We’re all mad<br />

and sad and silly and stuck together<br />

and blown away and bloody marvellous.<br />

We don’t need to be less. In any way.<br />

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