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Tracey Emin

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From 'Exploration of the Soul' - 1994

I opened up my sandwiches - the cheese was
sweaty and - the tomatoes had made the
bread go soggy - and I thought - I wish
Mum was at home - and I began to cry -
In tears I pulled myself along the now empty
beach - my feet dragging through the sand -
A voice said - what’s wrong little girl -
it came from a big brown hairy man -
I started to blubber even more telling him
my whole day’s story -

He made me laugh and smile -
He told me I was beautiful -
He gently covered the whole of my body
in tiny golden grains of sand -
And in the water - I ran my hands all over him -
He said I was like a tiny mermaid
And for me he was like a giant bear -
And I pulled on his willy
until a giant spray of white
covered my tiny limbs -

I was only eleven - but I knew
it could feel lovely to be a girl -

 

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