Oystercatcher
Press
Sophie Mayer:
Kiss Off

£4.00 A5 20pp. ISBN: 978-1-905885-48-0.
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Third
Attempt]
(ExtraIrigaray) A
lipped kiss of
crossed legs un crossing.
O, you think
so do you wear
the pants she
pants lips o pen
he writes see ho wever
you pitch it,
pitch like a girl (high no tes,
glass rimmed with
lip stick
tracery ornate
as dynamite criss-crossed
for the
takedown (the lo vebomb
wants us all in
the o of
wound how juicy how
moanumental the
ice breaks up and
in the
cut she writes on
the mirror over the fatal washbasin
no pen
eyeliner will have
to do so many
things (kohl and
response able
to lid or lip
touching brush
pencil or liquid
it will make you a
star t as tart
a st. art
astarte in
a doublet and
farthingale in
a black tux and
nylons in
an island nightclub in
a shower a singlet in
the darkness you
are the darkness o pacity,
o paucity of
your sync sound I
want to speak with
the inside of yo u secretly
/ glancing /
eyeline / (o)r love matches
(burnt)
letters addressed
for my eyes only
and signed XO |