TheSpinstress

Joined July 2017

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I teach English, watch Bollywood, learn Hindi, herd cats, and don't buy new clothes. Follow me on the Spinstress for sarcasm and snacks; MovieJaadoo for Hindi film. :)

http://thespinstressblog.wordpress.com/

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City Girl
You are supposed to like trees, Butterflies and birds and bees And all the nasty bits of nature In this pursuit, I am a failure.
By TheSpinstressabout a month ago in Poets
Love in the Wrong Place
Love in the wrong place I feel it as hunger and answer it: a chocolate bar dipped in a jar of peanut butter, a punnet of strawberries and cream,
By TheSpinstress3 months ago in Poets
No is a complete answer.
My instincts scream danger, so I walk right in. Colourblind myself - let the games begin. My conscience protests but you silence the din,
By TheSpinstress4 months ago in Poets
What's New in Our 2024 Update
You blocked this contact despite being in love with them for months. Well done. That was hard. . Do you want to back up this chat?
By TheSpinstress4 months ago in Poets
The Poet Does Not Sleep With The Muse
The poet does not sleep with the Muse. Not even when drunk on his whisky eyes out of it on the scent of his skin trapped in the heat of his breath
By TheSpinstress4 months ago in Poets
I always wanted to be the kind of woman who wears scarves
I am dressed for the funeral of my self-respect black from head to toe except the scarf to hide the bruises of your love
By TheSpinstress4 months ago in Poets
Top Story - December 2023
EvolutionTop Story - December 2023
I am not saving my best poems for a competition I can't afford to enter and will never win. I am not hiding my worst poems
By TheSpinstress4 months ago in Poets
Threat (Clockmail)
I kill time that wants to live. I'm not winding you up. It's time to be alarmed. Put your hands up, clock. Tick for no, tock for yes:
By TheSpinstress4 months ago in Poets
at night we watch classic comedy
He laughs and I see him how he was when I was small when I was clever and knew to make him smile; I was happy to be like him in any way at all.
By TheSpinstress4 months ago in Poets
Negotiations
Spider darling, We've talked about this before. You are half-way up the wall, not even that. I ask you - is that where we said you could be?
By TheSpinstress4 months ago in Poets
At night when you were not there
I read my own writing watch myself getting madder on increasingly nonsensical scraps of paper. My poetry is more inspired
By TheSpinstress4 months ago in Poets
RSM
I have been learning to be middle-class but there have been setbacks such as: I have 'mental health' which is like stress but you're not really allowed
By TheSpinstress4 months ago in Poets

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City Girl

Love in the Wrong Place

No is a complete answer.

What's New in Our 2024 Update

The Poet Does Not Sleep With The Muse

I always wanted to be the kind of woman who wears scarves

EvolutionTop Story - December 2023

Threat (Clockmail)

at night we watch classic comedy

Negotiations

At night when you were not there

RSM

Stories (67/0)