Bell-shaped
Studio
Old part of town
Orange and formica
Bright
Oil paintings
Kitchenette
Imagining myself inhabiting this space

Yet walking away

Temping
No start time, no location, no contact name
An idea of destination
Waiting outside the glass doors
Access card invalid
Another issued
Passport scanned in case it is not already on file
Hot desking
Hot room
Photocopier rhythm
Jam slam jam slam jam slam
Waiting for instructions
Filing
Phoning IT
Username mix-up
Shared inboxes available
Invigilator training
Student records database overview
Virtual Learning Environment
S p r e a d s h e e t s
Content

A new nightie to review
Silky smooth
Bright red too
Mesh against my chest
Lace lingers on my legs
My stomach an angry bump
Framed in frills
Double chin, strained grin
Comments: High quality material and built.

Pushing out poetry
Is like forcing out a burp;
It hurts
… And nobody likes the result

I never got along with grammar
The overbearing matriarch
Policing my words
Stopping the flow
Amending my message
Until it’s sterile
Anger sourced and cited
Backing up opinions with facts

Shushing my LOUDNESS like a stereotypical librarian
Which is BS because all the librarians I know are anarchists
Who are happy people access the words rather than dictate what they do with them

Language doesn’t need rules