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Part time poet, full time librarian, student of the delights of milk chocolate. Likes books, milk, paddling, poetry, scribbling, chocolate, notebooks, sea, piers. Not necessarily in that order. All work copyright cih.

Mnemosyne

While it was helpful for a while
To use you as a muse
and mould you into shapes
that really didn't suit
I find I no longer need
yourself to stir my brain
My imagination now works
Under its own auspices again
©cih16, 23:06, 30.11.16

With a nod to Carly Simon

You probably think
My writing's about you

But mostly
It's about me
©cih16, 20:55, 30.11.16

Shining

Anointed like some kind of sacrifice
Skin gleaming with unguents, oiled
Not an offering to an unrecognised deity
But an attempt to ward off a cold
©cih16, 22:00, 29.11.16

Neighbours

I listen as you sniff and cough,
shouting on your phone,
Stamping around the flat
I google 'How to hide a body'
and 'Is prison as bad as all that'
©cih16, 29.11.16

Saturday night on a dating app

The chat up lines get cornier
as men get drunker and hornier
©cih16, 22:35, 28.11.16