hug a boy –
one you have just found
gain planning consent
and redesign your lost and found

almost fifteen
and the wallpaper is coming down
i need to come clean
but i was a child
and i had never painted ceilings

but the damage
hangs in my galleries
pictures scrawled
of bitter sweet families

as a child
your horrid parents
took a long hard drag
and packed your childhood
into 1980’s carrier bags