That book I read
when I was 8
Made me think
there was a gate
A door behind the coats
Today I woke up
rather late
Slid the mirrored plastic wide
looked beyond the Primark tat
(Discount lives & have no pride)
Realised there’s no escape
From the future’s open jaws
gaping back thro
Wardrobe doors.
Cherry Coombe 