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Poetry

Mary

Janina Aza Karpinska

You never had it easy - just your luckpoem.jpg
to be the one chosen - to have your name,
and condition, made a laughing-stock
for more years than you could ever imagine.

To be almost-left by your fiance,
who wanted to 'spare you any shame,'
then brought you to your first home,
if you can call settling amongst hay,
and the ...

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