Ex-friends
You become elephants with your telephone trunks
tying up my brain into grey thumping feet
Lipstick
I don't wear lipstick much
'Isabella, wear lipstick!'
I could recite you every lipstick shade ever made
But still I wear no lipstick
Almadovar has always been jealous of me
Ever since I got the sex number 69 for Spanish in my HSC.
Wednesday
Wednesday I don't know if I love or hate you because you
Always cut my week in half
Doorways
Doorways
Leading the way towards warm rooms
Organising
Organising me is killing me
Organising me is filling me up too much
Organising me is pure hard work
How I hate hard work
Eyebrows
Straggly eyebrows
Unkempt eyebrows
Eyebrows that are shapeless
Get me down
The tram ride
The tram ride was as bumpy and temperamental as the people on it
T-shirt
Too baggy, feel sexless
Too tight feel too sexy
There is no happy medium with a t-shirt
There are two sides to every t-shirt
Crumbs
Crumbs tempt me
Breaking my conscience
Salvador Dali's moustache
I love the way you go from fat to thin
Straight to curly
Shadows
Shadows make me see my darker side
Plants
1. The pot stark black, cobalt, curvaceous
The flowers white, delicate embroidered by
Surrounding greenery
2. A plant spilling over its black holder
Like champagne bubbling over a new years day
3. The half dressed bamboo
Stands away from its harsh, dry mouthed owner
4. The green spidery leaves crawl out of the pot towards other victims
Out to Mars
Chocolate is my weakness. Dad today proved it was his strength
as he knocked the Mars Bar out of my hand and threw it out the car window
maybe out to Mars.
Isabella Fels is a Melbourne writer. She has an Arts degree majoring in Psychology and Spanish from Swinburne University. Her poetry and articles have being published in Positive Words, The Big Issue and Mental Illness Voice, among others.