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Rachael Romero on the Magdalen laundries of
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The Fifties girl
Fixwrite Press 25 pages
Poetry reflecting life in the 1950s
as seen through not-so-rose coloured glasses with a lens thickness of half a
century.
Contents:
Ecstasy and Agony
Billy Graham
Bath Night
My Brother My hero
Bloomers
Colours
Visitors
Winter Morning
Migrant Children
The Attic
The Shack
Ode to the Diving Platform
The Snake Charmer
Who shrunk the Quadrangle
Urbane Sophistication
1950s Sunday Afternoon
Brisbane
Street on a Sunday
was lined with
young men in fast cars
who vied for the attention
of even faster girls
who strolled in pairs
with feigned disinterest
until
choices made
they left in a convoy
for Punchbowl Reserve
to explore and debate
the purpose of life
©
Merlene Fawdry
Urbane Sophistication
one shilling bought a small packet
of black and white cork tips
long slim tokens of status
to be savoured in secret places
in school toilets
behind bike sheds
and at the bottom of Royal Park
each forbidden cigarette
balanced between untainted fingers
angled to create an urbane image
of chic sophistication
a move much practiced
with pouting lips
and half closed eyes
in front of the bathroom mirror
the smoke drawn deep into lungs
the protested against the invasion
of the much-envied drawback
eyes streamed from
suppressed coughs
that filled the throat
teeth clenched
to protect the image
of the adolescent smoker until
eventually
smoke erupted
from nose and mouth
to the admiration
of friend and foe alike
and the hidden relief of the smoker
©
Merlene Fawdry
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