Category Archives: TATI’S POEMS

guttersnipe

a big heavy cloud
that hangs out above your head
it’s a speech balloon
that’s crammed full with jumbled text
rubbish you shot from your mouth

by TETIANA ALEKSINA
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meanwhile… rain

let’s not run away
next time they hunt us down
let’s stay there and look
at their bewildered faces

let’s sit on the dirty curb
have a smoke (though both of us don’t)
and watch as they’re chased away
by a freezing november rain

by TETIANA ALEKSINA
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the meter’s ticking

it’s just another night
they go home by taxi
i go the other way
the driver looks at me
he asks where to stop
but i stay silent

it’s just another night
they go home by taxi
i go from myself
and now my only thought
that i’m short of money
for such a lifelong ride

by TETIANA ALEKSINA
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no more may days

her eyes had become shallow
men were drowning in them before
now they merely slosh through
and don’t even take off their shoes

by TETIANA ALEKSINA
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The Middle Finger Can Be Sign Language Too

This is when
I assert myself.
And this is
when you try
to convince me otherwise.
So happy I’m deaf!

by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2021