Found Poetry - Sharpened with plenty of vinegar

Sharpened with plenty of vinegar

One fat dumpy lady
Grossly intimate
most definitely not puritan
Awkward
Guilt
A failed chapter

The phrases for this poem came from Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B S Johnson. A birthday present from my husband in 2018 that has to be one of my favourite books ever despite me needing to read it with a dictionary beside me. Perhaps it spoke to me only because of my day job but nonetheless speak to me it did and the language inspired a series of found poems.

This is the first and my favourite as it is a self-portrait in poetry form.

12 October 2018

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