Week 19 - # 127 Collaboration w/Paul Hawkins

FLEA

I want to tell you about a kid,
her name was Fiona, Fi – but I never called her that.
She was thirteen.
Blonde and skinny,
packed with energy;
it was like she wanted to be free from something.
I called her Flea.

(excerpt from a spoken-word performance piece)

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Paul Hawkins