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Body in the Bedsit

Ashley Fisher

It was a fortnight before they found you,
lay on the bed in an old pair
of jeans and the blouse your mam bought you
for your birthday; staring blindly towards
the window which over-looked the soap
powder factory, your left wrist gaping
(had you been too weak to tear the second?)
beside an emptied vodka bottle.

Had it been a “slow news day” you might
have made the front page with your dad’s
favourite picture of you, taken last spring
just before you left school. As it was,
six hundred jobs had gone at the shipyard and
you were relegated to the “in brief” section,
squeezed between a church fête and
the sixth annual spring plant fair.

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