CLAIRE SOSIENSKI SMITH

MY BAD HABIT

I will never leave the party

I am in your garden
watering the gardenias
you thought were gypsophila

I am on your roof
replacing the loose tiles
washing your bedroom window
nodding emphatic to show my
pleasant demeanour, the ripeness
of my upbringing

my mouth is full of shells

I am bleeding your radiators

organising your junk mail
by grammatical accuracy

picking hair out the
bathroom sink

you say get out of my
bathroom I need to take a shower

I say
if I was your cat I
would never kick
litter out of my tray

Claire Sosienski Smith is based in SE London and a part of Resonance Poetry Collective, a queer-led collective that hosts free workshops and open mics. Their work has most recently been published in eff-able and 14 poems.