Annie Clarkson

Annie Clarkson is a poet and fiction writer from Manchester, England.  A collection of her poems/prose poems is being published in 2007 by Shadowtrain.

almost kerbcrawled

 

side stares from a car window, that two bitch look of a man who wants to own you, call you his, stretch you out on the tarmac and run you down

 

with his two-tone tyres, his make it smile, his computer eyes

 

lipstick him to the hilt, call him daddy, make him beg

 

strap him to the back seat and make him want the day you were first split

the see-saw wanting of your hair across his face

 

the humiliation of his face when you

break him

 

whisper that you love him

tell him the darkest secret you own

 

convince him he is the cause

the eyes he closes, the mouth he covers, the skin he rips

 

with his sidelong stare