Introducing a new series of poems by Julian Matthews. Julian is a writer and Pushcart-nominated poet published in The American Journal of Poetry, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Borderless Journal, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Dream Catcher Magazine, Live Encounters Magazine, Lothlorien Poetry Journal and The New Verse News, among others. He is a mixed-race minority from Malaysia and lived in Ipoh for seven years. Currently based in Petaling Jaya, he is a media trainer and consultant for senior management of multinationals on Effective Media Relations, Social Media and Crisis Communications. He was formerly a journalist with The Star and Nikkei Business Publications Inc
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By Julian Matthews
She read a poem I wrote on laundry
And said she liked it
She said I’m prolific
Perhaps if she met me in person, she would know
I smell
and reek of dirty doggerel
and mucky metaphors
I am missing metre and cadence like socks missing their pair—
found under the washing machine a month later
with some bits of underwear
I stink of rhymes drenched in cheap perfume
To please daddies, sugary or otherwise
I am a walking pile of a week’s unwashed verbiage
Waiting for a line break
To be hung out to dry
And here’s me making my last stanza
To separate the wordy whites from the coloured clichés
and soppy delicates
So soak it in
Before I dye…
First published in Lime Square Poets, Ireland.
