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Lipstick on the 211
Keleigh Wolf
You enjoy symbolism – balance this off your Barthes:
You are lipstick-tube traveller, sat atop the 211 bus
to penetrate a Waterloo sunset.
Once you’ve slipped through those sucrose oranges
slinking off into the blackness of a rioting night,
your feet will follow the historic path of the pissed-off
to heave your well-weighed, twice measured, once cut
ideology to the sky with the exuberance of a Pentecostal choir.
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