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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 [...]


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