Isobel Webster

Isobel Webster Jan 2018

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She ***** me with her words
forcing herself on me
through the phone line,

Unable to pull myself
away from the
vindictive *****
called
Isobel Webster

Isobel Webster Dec 2017

DEATH BY A SAVIOUR AND I CANNOT DECIDE WHICH

Heavily addicted rainstorm/
In the midst of coffee spilt tears/
Blue curtin ramblings/
In a headmasters grave/
Lolled eyes that leer/
Uncomfortably built from a clean slate/
And only avoided to hide behind/

Isobel Webster Dec 2017

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You're not enough,
or so you tell me,
and it's your biggest fear

Isobel Webster Dec 2017

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You're old now,
missing buttons
and cut pockets.
She says you had better days,
but to me you never looked better.

Isobel Webster Dec 2017

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Perhaps,

When the power came back on,

I was a different person.

Because I could see what was in the dark

Isobel Webster Nov 2017

ALL MY DADS FRIENDS HAVE DIED AND HE TAKES DAYS OFF TO GO TO THEIR FUNERALS

I fell in love when I was six,

looked straight up into the dark void
and found gravity did not exist,

threw my hands ritualistically to the stars,

to hear their stories