Safety Net

Incident.
Appointment.
25mg daily / monthly.

A check-up.
Further fortitude!
50mg daily for the foreseeable.

Many months pass.
A personal decision.
50mg down to
20mg down to
Every other day.
Every third day.

No pills.
Four months.
Incident.
Appointment.

- chelsea hare, 26th May 2018

Salt For The Sexist

When feeding the mouths of men-men-men
The names of his sexual partners,
I appreciated how the ligaments in his neck
Stretched, suddenly, as he skipped over one name
And the thrills they had together
The summer I was away


    - c. h., 26th July 2020

Silence

My silence
A monument to fear
I was nothing more

Your words
Through the wave
Away from this

My silence
Face pressed in text
Uncanny unicorn

Your silence
A room of endless mirrors
I spat at until dawn

My silence
The cacophony in my chest
Two bloody stumps

Your silence
The bravest possibility
Incredible mercy


- CH, 12th February 2017

Someone, Somewhere

appetite faded
bored mid-wanking

save-the-date invites
letterbox mountain

awkward phone-call
with a once close friend

they’re leaving the Capital
‘better for the bairns’

rejected at interview
for the manager’s mate

purchasing Chewits
to feel a handshake

that old soul hit,
now uncanny picture

losing your grip
clinging to nostalgia

that burgundy grin
floats downstream

of social simulacra
and ants in the screen


    - c.h., 8th May 2022