Letter Home To Parenthesis

Elision screams

claust’phobic

says she can’t go on like this

she needs to feel compl’te

please stop the rain

words run off the edge of the page

(is that po’tic?)

ne’ermind 

and all lost letters 

will find their destin’tion

som’day

* * *

dear dad 

dear mum

I had to leave home

all my friends were full stops

lo’tering amon’st the cut and paste debris

like brok’n verse vagab’nds

bored ellip’is 

…

searching for meanings

inarticulate dots

… 

in leath’rs and zips

there was a mess’ah

once

we kissed on the ‘ips

but a question mark

hung over ‘im

now I feel free

(un-(prevented)) uninhibited 

I’m learning to breathe in

breathe out exclamations of happiness

must dash

love  

E

- ps - will send another letter 

soon

© 2007  P.A.Levy

First published by Streetcake 2009

 

iDiet

when she was seven a half stone   

joanne stuffed her face with pie and chips

and pie and chips and more chips

until she was sick

when she was seven stone 

joanne would cut the food on her plate

into tiny pieces

wave her fork around whilst talking

pretended to swallow

yet hadn’t eaten a thing

no one noticed

when she was six and a half stone 

joanne wanted to look just right for a date

but feeling grossly unattractive

decided she needed to lose some weight

not eating a thing for days and days

when she was six stone

joanne binged on chocolate

then stuck her fingers down her throat

when she was five and a half stone

joanne shaved off her long blonde hair

joked she was going for belsen chic

none of us laughed

it wasn’t funny

when she was five stone

joanne was admitted into hospital

she was just a bag of skin and bones

didn’t even have the strength

to walk unaided

when she was four and a half stone 

with not an once of ugly fat

joanne was dead

sandwiches and nibbles were served at the wake

© 2010  iDrew

First published in Black Mirror 2013