Julie

10Jul08

“A biography in 18 lines”, featured on a bookmark to celebrate National Poetry Day by Leicester and Leicestershire Libraries.

 

Julie

Wore kitten-heeled boots
skin-tight jeans, studded belt
and a leather jacket,
feather-cut blonde hair
with heavy kohl and mascara
to age her blue eyes.

Huddles on a park bench
at midnight.
There’s a gap in her pocket
where her stepmother refused
to give her house keys
and locked up an hour
before she said she would.

Dreams in snatches of sleep
a job at the perfume counter,
marriage to the guy she met tonight
because he once mentioned
he didn’t want children.

        Emma Lee

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