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Whilst Women Will Settle For Shoes by Alison Shiel

5 July 2007  |  Published in Audio, Poems

Alison reading at Words Aloud

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What do you want to do?
He asks, sprawled on his back
Su Doku hack
Head full of numbers, not wanting replies to distract him from counting.

Not much!
What do you want to do?
She sends the question back-
Flicking through Cosmos
“one hundred best ways to reach your ultimate orgasm”
and
“summer salads are the new winter stews.”
He s thinking: Carlsberg, match of the day and
Getting his end away.
Shes thinking BBQ! (call Liz and Jayne)
Summer salads and chilled white wine.
He presses his stop watch… Yes!
Within the ten minute dead line!
She smirks with satisfaction when she reads…
“Celebrity A has put on weight again.

Lets call Liz and Jayne.
He groans, he yawns,he studies his phone
Yea I ll ring Richard – hes home alone.
They go down to the garden
She thows lettuce in bowls,
He cracks a Carlsberg
And fetches the coals.

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