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5 Apr26

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YouTube: Julia Deakin reading
Some things I learned from the Blackie Girl’s Companion

Date

Strange how we’ve both dressed up for this
when we always used to dress down.
You can’t fool me: that’s a flack jacket
under your shirt, or a cushion –

and some crafty make-up bod
has roughed up your skin, added lines
to your eyes, bad teeth – and you’re wearing
one of those bald wigs.

But then here’s me in this granny mask,
wrinkly pink and purple gloves,
crimped body suit, sprinkling of moles
and talc all over my hair.

And look – we’ve both brought glasses
to read between the lines.

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Julia Deakin

first published in Poetry London, 68; in collection Eleven Wonders, 2012, Graft Poetry, ISBN 978-0-9558400-5-0

first published in Poetry London, 68;
in collection Eleven Wonders, 2012, Graft Poetry, ISBN 978-0-9558400-5-0