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Twenty-seven spots

  • by - 10th May 2016
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At first there were three
then four…
then seven…
then eleven…
(including my innernose pore)
and finally twenty-seven…
twenty-seven spots!

My life is officially OVER!

No concealer will
cover these
red, bulging
white pus oozing,
purple peaking
mass of
twenty-seven spots.

My life is officially OVER!

Savlon was hopeless,
toothpaste the same.
Plasters pathetic,
listerine in vain.
Nothing could combat
these indestructible
twenty-seven spots.

My life is officially OVER!

These are no
spotty spots.
These are a
Kilimanjaro-sized,
Himalayan-ranged army
of invincible
twenty-seven spots.

My life is officially OVER!

I can’t leave the house.
I can’t go to school.
I can’t ever, ever, ever
be seen in public
EVER again!
Out damn
twenty-seven spots.

My life is officially OVER!

A leopard has less
a cheetah even fewer
than my crop of
twenty-seven…
twenty-four…
twenty-one…
twenty-… what spots?

My life is officially ON!

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Susan Miller 
			
Growing up in the agricultural north-east surrounded by ‘Scotland the What’ humour, Susan, from a non-Doric household, learned to enjoy the rich sparseness of this area’s dialect. She continues to experiment with both English and Doric, contributing to two HW…


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Susan Miller

Growing up in the agricultural north-east surrounded by 'Scotland the What' humour, Susan, from a non-Doric household, learned to enjoy the rich sparseness of this area's dialect. She continues to experiment with both English and Doric, contributing to two HW anthologies, Lallans, Dyslexia and Us (Dyslexia Scotland) and POTB (Pushing out the Boat). Winner of the Buchan Heritage Society's Open Verse section in 2016, one of her favourite experiences with HW was creating, 'Pit on yer simmit,' a Doric Renga (and a world first) with four fellow members. Although now an in-absentia HW member, Susan drops in during school holidays.

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