The Local

Stupid Penny toys with her button Biting her bottom lip, Frowning her brow Misery pulls at her Loneliness sucks Fill voids with Mall time Plastic replete. Feeling so fulsome; flirting with clothes Racks upon racks upon shelves upon drawers Cover your colours up cleverly hide Futile fickle figures flickering tinkering Gripping and stirring and numbing and dumbing Dutifully dip down diving in devilry. Pens empower punters people pledge revenge Pondering pointlessly pointing at pendulums Wasting breath wasting life wasting time Waste away get wasted get wanted Get Wankered get wired Glitching through roundabouts Loopholing widely Hold your box tightly its preciousness Leaks your Lifeline runs swiftly Through slackness and slime It’s dirty It’s soiled now It’s tainted. It’s gone. 11 February 2023 Acquaintance and Neighborhood Sotto Poet