“Ow, ow, ow”
The balls of your feet hop
“It’s cold, it’s cold, it’s cold”
on my bathroom tiles
as if they were hot coals.
Today we’ve slept in
and stood up the sun.
You’re outraged.
“What the fuck, it’s four pm”
Sorry babe.
“I love my city, my city isn’t pretty but I love it”- Polarbear
My relationship with Camden Town
has been the same since year seven
I keep my head down and avoid attention.
When with you
I’m wearing a cowboy hat
that’s pink and glittery.
Love is fear is, vulnerability
While walking down a busy high street
and telling you a (funny) story
“Uh I think thats”
I step on a used nappy
“That’s… a nappy”
Ruined my punchline.
You look mortified
I’m looking down
I look at you
You smile, start laughing
I smile.
I love strolling through
Tesco Metros and
Sainsbury locals,
something meditative
about searching for
the yellow reduced stickers,
ingredients forcing my hand
to try out something new.
Saving my money like it’s
perpetually bleeding out
in an alleway.
We’re looking for pinto beans
to make Christmas Pupusas.
They’re from Salvador,
you’re from Mexico but
your mum made them
when she was young.
Reminds you of home.
and right now,
that’s what
You need most.
The world food section
in the
Big-budget,
Block-buster,
Super-Market.
Is half an aisle
Reminds me of films that have seven
superheroes protecting the whole world
and the best defence for diversity
is to say at least one of them is green.
The closest thing to south America is
the Old El Paso Crunchy Taco Kit.
”So, no pinto beans?”
Sorry babe.
We’re making a vegan macaroni and cheese
and accidentally put in too much salt.
It tastes less like food and more like the sea.
We then go to my room and have fight
But don’t have the heart so it turns into a cry
”How’s this going to work”
are we chatting about the pasta or life?
Back on the wall. Slide down
Hands in head, bum on the ground.
In love, and don’t want to be out
In trouble, and can’t figure it out.
hey, hey…
You ever wonder what kind of pigeon you’d be?
Christmas isn’t for stressing,
we’ll try the food tomorrow,
Let’s have a cuddle and watch T.V.