Lothario To peer in at my life to take great gulps of it he came to me for coffee after my father died I listened to his rambling Carl Rogers’ theories The way he kept checking me I liked it at first No one had worried about me the way I worried about others
Abridged 0__58: Kassandra
Day after day I wrote in my diary I have to get away from him
his late night calls his recitation of himself self manoeuvring me into saying I loved him and what I’d do for him him My delayed responses – all on TDK tapes somewhere in his cellar
self him
Trying to get him off the line putting the receiver down pretending I was busy Trying to get away from him him him his fantasies – double-dating three-timing Sue Sarah Pam Clare Becky and nearly me
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Maria Isakova Bennett
Opposite: Adaeze Ihebom, Amuchechukwu Gloria Okwonkwo 1967 from the Igbo Women series, 2019