Wallpaper

I want to tear myself apart like wallpaper

Just to hold out my arms and shout to the great white buildings

'Now look what you've made me go and do.'

I hope you're ashamed of yourself

Making young girls with all this potential go tearing their skin off like wallpaper

Would you just look at me,

Just look at me!

I look like a 1980s fringed cowboy jacket but even more disturbing and arguably more justified

And what do you have to say for yourself, you uncaring shards of concrete?

Life flaps its jowls and replies,

'A young lady like you! A young lady like you!'