We are a mixed puzzle
A book
A phone
A long lost hat
The car sleeps under the black stray cat
How do we know
We are
Because we have a heart beat
She whispers
Lubdub
Lubdub
Two little girls in a dunking tub
I have to check
Time must not dangle
So many rules
She sighs
If I was a gem
How precious would I be
She asks
Lying on her side
Hair drizzling over baby bird elbows
I don’t have the backbone to answer
You are cobalt blue
She squeals
My favourite colour
Forever and ever
I hug the wall
This is me sober
Want to see me fall
No one came Alice
Only the people in grey suits
Who wrote our story
With a company pen
They got it all wrong
Of course
She smooths her hair
Tried to make us cheap
And nasty
We are
A picture
Of a picture
On a wall
On a wall
A distant star
Circling the moon
But still shining
She says
Quietly
Shh
We drop
Like a penny in the night
He used razor wire
To staunch the flow of blood
How perfectly silly
She says
The silver warms against my skin
See a penny pick up
A shilling is even better luck
Is that the phone or the moon
We are in a state aren’t we
No
We are feeling
We are
We are
I hug the wall
This is me sober
Want to see me fall.
