Status Updates From The Wickedest

‘I hope I am understood
when my body hears the song
and my limbs speak
what they have always spoken:
with a little bit of luck
we can make it through the night.’

‘I wish I was naturally light-footed
but it takes lifetimes to learn
the dance of acceptance;
how to pivot around destruction
as I move through the days.’

‘shout-out to the ravers inside
who came to have a good time
cos we don’t always have a long time’

‘One day you will wake up
to the fog already on your bed
spread like a lazy cat.
And in this haze -
this swooping ticking,
this scam that is adulthood -
you will become jaded,
washed of your colour.
The days will become sticky,
harder to rinse off your skin.
You will forget that your laugh
resembles the tongue
of a bell whipping.’