Amnesia
By Leilanie Stewart
Today
I suffered
a near-death experience
a car crash
in which
my imaginary companions
were killed
My imaginary father
had been wearing his seat-belt
my imaginary mother
had suffered whiplash
from her airbag, and
I don’t know what had become
of my imaginary siblings
since they were both tied up
in the boot
When I woke up
in the aftermath of the crash
I saw my frontal lobe
smeared across
the seat in front
Funny
how a lobotomy
could leave me feeling
so great
English litter-ature
By Leilanie Stewart
A long time ago
I hoping to remember this
therefore, and but,
I’m gerund out of here
Does this poem annoy you?
Do you find that I’m not
a very inarticulamate person?
I’ll have you no
my degree is first crass
from Oxbridge
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