Poet @ the Commonwealth Games Glasgow!

Q-POETICS is funded by Creative Scotland through the Cultural Programme 2014

Q-POETICS is funded by Creative Scotland through the Cultural Programme 2014

 

100 DAYS TO GO!!! Q-POETICS is now part of the Cultural Programme 2014 and will work to reduce queue-induced stress at the Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014. Can’t wait to work with those lining up to pay, purchase or pass at sporting and cultural events. To begin with, as a poet-in-training (flexing the imagination and toning my best attempts), are the video poems I WON (in response to the concept of winning) & CONTRAST II (in response to the fact that there is so rarely a Common Wealth)…Q-free viewing while you wait! ha!

The Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme is a national celebration. Culture 2014 will showcase dance, theatre, music, visual arts, comedy and much more in the run up to and after the Commonwealth Games, with Festival 2014 transforming the Host City at Games time. The Cultural Programme is a partnership between the Glasgow 2014 Organising Committee, Glasgow Life, and Creative Scotland through National Lottery funding.

her world, she’s broken it, she said

her world, she’s broken it, she said
PUBLIC
She bolts in
Through the ‘Out’ gate
Stands in sneakers and distress
Her school uniform, her hair – wet
Clinging to her cry for help
 
We all turn to stare
From our fixed queue order
Some of us try to understand
To spend some listening
This side of the counter
 
They’re all after her
She couldn’t study
She is in need of a dollar
Her world, she’s broken it, she said
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