Matt Fallaize
Ways of Leaving
i
Cornish Gumbo
Why do you why is it
always morning and linear why
the second jetty and always
the ghosts what was
that I didn’t quite
catch it
ii
Pursued by a bear
Forza Waitress! Cold for
isn’t it? Slips by
least expected hard
flat ground broken up by
unforgiving shovel
iii
I’ll thank you for not interrupting
He’s got a house in three
livid lines with super
my legendary I cannot believe
you some girl chasing after
contentious dead Germans
in the wrong aisle in Safeways
iv
I put in for this family
Now let me see, Jackson
you were swimming the
wrong way up the floor
whilst running out of
I couldn’t I really
couldn’t
v
With a surprised Capulet
No not the right
one at all over behind the
drapes what are the
implications of this for my
career? Can’t adapt
politically must stop
looking quite so
vi
Half-overheard
When the guy said
what do you want? I said
I quite fancy being a careers officer
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