TheSpinstress

Joined July 2017

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I always wanted to be the kind of woman who wears scarves. Content Warning.
I am dressed for the funeral of my self-respect black from head to toe except the scarf to hide the bruises of your love
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
Evolution. Top Story - December 2023.
I am not saving my best poems for a competition I can't afford to enter and will never win. I am not hiding my worst poems
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
Threat (Clockmail)
I kill time that wants to live. I'm not winding you up. It's time to be alarmed. Put your hands up, clock. Tick for no, tock for yes:
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
at night we watch classic comedy
He laughs and I see him how he was when I was small when I was clever and knew to make him smile; I was happy to be like him in any way at all.
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
Negotiations
Spider darling, We've talked about this before. You are half-way up the wall, not even that. I ask you - is that where we said you could be?
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
At night when you were not there
I read my own writing watch myself getting madder on increasingly nonsensical scraps of paper. My poetry is more inspired
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
RSM. Content Warning.
I have been learning to be middle-class but there have been setbacks such as: I have 'mental health' which is like stress but you're not really allowed
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
Kitchens
Fried eggs with chilli flakes folded inside, hing frazzled in along their gilded edges, sitting atop an unabashed biryani -
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
In the pauses between spins
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By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
Easy
A kiss on the palm of my hand that slid down my arm, up past the bend, into my soul and then some - I knew it was the end for me.
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
Hobbies and Interests
Disturbed by your absence I sought a diversion - Some kind of pastime To take my mind off your eyes. Reading novels in which the hero
By TheSpinstress 3 years ago in Poets
Hack Boy
Yaila deplored this new tendency of his to invade her thoughts. Three times today, she had completely checked out of a real conversation and into an imaginary one with him. He murmured all the right things and looked dazzling doing it. It was ridiculous how many hours she was wasting on daydreams.
By TheSpinstress 3 years ago in Fiction