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Marion Tracy has an MA in English Literature and has been writing her own poetry for about 5 years. She’s been published by Scintilla, ARTEMISpoetry, Mslexia, Tears in the Fence and Obsessed With Pipework.
Things I like about being a stone:
I get to spend a lot of time with my circle of friends.
I can keep an eye on Martin the fiddler
and my best friend, Jane Wainwright, see
they don’t get up to their old tricks.
Us all sleeping with each other.
This yellow lichen on me because it’s the colour
of the petticoat I was wearing
the night I was punished for dancing around being happy.
Things I can’t stand:
Being awake at 3am without a drink in my hand.
People I don’t like the look of who kiss me
and think that it means something.
Being pissed up against.
How tight it is in here.
When I wake up from a dream about my mother
and everything still looks the same.
The time a young man came up behind me
and touched my back
just gently
and me not being able to turn around and say;
Do that again, please do that to me again.
Poem published: Obsessed With Pipework Number 50, 2010.
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