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Your Girlfriend

Does she have her own friends, own room, own life? Does she dance around to Marvin Gaye? Does she get her toes caught in her knickers? Does she wear...
Cherry

Trans-Pennine

on Yorks/Lancs race relations
Cherry

Seasonal Poem

Did I not come to you in autumn? Did I not wait for non-existent buses As the rain lashed my hair into my eyes? Did I not catch leaves for you? Hold...

Supermarket Fruit

You leave me as you found me. Bruised.
Cherry

Paper Cut

You lie there innocent As my thumb springs red Hurts like hell But not enough to be plastered The kind of wound that needs air to heal

Football Boys

on the intricacies of having a one night stand with a man met at a football match in Burnley, Lancs.

SOD YOU

Sod you, For giving me sod all. Sod you, For making me feel odd. Sod you, For simply sodding off. And sod you, For being such a sod. 30 October 2004

Morning

Our clothes lay where they fell Your jeans nudging against my skirt My jumper sleeves wrapped around your shirt Only my bra lays distant Victim No...

Let Me Be Your Drugs

Let me be your drugs Replace all your addictions with this exquisite one Let it be me in your bloodstream Shining in your eyes Reach for me before...
Cherry

I like boys

I like boys with black, black hair that gets in their blue, blue eyes I like boys who laugh as often as they cry Who fit in my arms and look right...

Fox

I used to think you were foxy And later wolf like Stalker Panther in the night. Now your sharp teeth remind me of something else Smaller Beady eyed...

Cardiac Arrest (or Please Police Me)

I protested my innocence as you read me my rights, But you still kept me in for a couple of nights - And now that I''m guilty I just can't get free,...

Death

Having fought it once With the scar to prove it You don't fear death But I do That it will come and take you That I won't know Until it's too late...

Branded

You come to me Branded I often wonder if she would notice my marks amongst her many But my love isn't the painful kind No talons here No stinging...

Collector

Mostly they're dark - opposites Tall and thin Not yours though You'll never need to pull my hair from your pillowcase You'll never need to explain my...

X FACTOR

You possess the X factor; That something spectacular. An essence that you've just got, It's strikingly boiling hot. It makes me want to touch you,...

VOICE OF LOVE

The voice of love whispered your name, With the softness of gentle rain. Like warm waves on a quiet shore, A pleasantness, but nothing more. The...

SOME DAY

Some day you will understand, The way I feel for you. Some day you will truly know, Because you'll feel it too.

JUST YOU

Everybody is different, And so you are different too. But I don't want just different, For what I want is just you. I'm plagued with feelings I have...

CAN YOU FEEL IT?

Can you feel the burning need, That I often feel for you? Can you feel the growing warmth, Can you feel it glowing too? Can you feel the thrilling...

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