peas & full

Feature by Andrea Grant | 15 Feb 2006
peas

there are many things i
should be doing,
i know
(switch lights off, recycle
batteries, own
sex toys, wear
hemp)

and not doing
(eat meat, read
magazines, giggle,
fuck)

yet things mush in my
mind (like peas in
soup) and I recycle
burgers, eat
batteries, read
sex toys, fuck
hemp -

and find no time to
giggle
in the dark



--



full

i missed you
today
(a drilling with the
dentist? a probe with the
proctologist?)

no - i'm
kidding -
you're not
around to
miss in that
way

so i guess i
must have
missed you in
another sense -

as a bald
man
misses his
comb, an
alcoholic
his
prepubescent
liver;
that's how
i must have
missed you
today

which is not to
say i'm a
balding drunk -

i have a full
head thank
you and red
wine gives me
migraines -

as a full
woman misses
her full plate
(oh to
go back,
eat again) -
that's how i
miss you, i
think
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