Soggy Paper Straws
Written by Stephanie Pearl
Soggy Paper Straws
Wet Floors
Clingfilm Doors
Scrubbing Pores
With the Periodic Table
Putting mayo in our hair
Serum in our stare
Concrete Underwear
Medium Rare
Claiming we’re unstable
Just from our flaws
Sucking our sores
Sucking our straws
Spitting in friends faces
Looking for the cause
Clingfilm Doors
Fake news
Tied Shoes
With Strawberry laces
Who has it the worst?
Who suffered it first?
Pack Bags
With self pitty and mayo
Zip open our purse
Count the Queens curse
Friend Calls. Echo Falls.
We say No.
Fill up the glass
With tears of the past
Cut up the couch potato
Dyer we’re bored
Love Island failed to record
Suck the soggy straw of sorrow
Fuck the plastic floor of tomorrow
Soggy Paper straws
Plastic pores
Occlude shores
A homeless hoar
Come to the foar
Young Carnivore
For Gender Roar
And social media war
Is a trapdoor
A façade of the core
Fact that sucking on
that exact
Soggy Paper Straw
You’ve had since Birth
isn’t enough
to save the Earth.
A PLAY ON WORDS 