Black Spot

a rough journey makes for a hard sell at the market

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Why refer to me as if I have just ascended the supermarket shelf?

“On the Market!”

Why mention it at all?
As if the person/s that I choose to share my heart or body with is anybody else’s business.

Yet if I inquired about the health of your sex life with your partner…
somehow that is inappropriate!

“Oh, but you really deserve it!”

My heartbreak and trauma apparently add an extra qualifier but in reality, it’s a disqualifier.

• A Black Spot

An…

“Aha! That’s why…”

There had to be something!
Picked at its peak, ripe for harvest…
but a rough journey makes for a hard sell at the market.

Simone Lam-Ellis, 2025

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