*Paula's Poems*

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Remembering

By Paula Puddephatt

I don’t know very much about Islam.

Eighteen – soon.  Is twenty-five too old, then?

He still drinks Special Brew, but won’t eat ham.

He hides me in the downstairs toilet when

 

His brother is there, and I show up pissed.

He’s wanting an "open relationship".

He makes me feel old-fashioned to resist

Such concepts.  Loyalty is just not hip.

 

He wants me to dress sexier.  I try

To please both my new boyfriend and my mum,

Which isn’t easy.  I might wonder why

I dress for them, not me.  I fear my bum

 

Is getting bigger.  I’m nearly eight stone.

I still can’t get my boyfriend on the phone.

REST IN PEACE: MADGE, PAUL & JOHN (-2005)
ARROW & EMERALD (-2006)
KLAUS, DONNA, RALPH & KATHRYN (-2007)
BRYONY, GEORGE, PEAR, MERRI & BERT (-2008)
AMOS, LEHI, PETE, DAVY, GAVIN, NEPHI & APPLE (-2009)
DEENIE, ESSENCE, JANIS, LINDA, ERIC & DON (-2010)