Gay Chicken
This is how it starts.
Champion of every round, player,
Don’t care to cleanse yourself
from the corridor rumours. Lunchtime
fixtures are your ritual: Lynx opponents,
your lips dew heavy scared shitless
ticking a different box after one act.
Your girlfriend says, ‘what do you notice first?’
This is how it ends, and it shows you up.
You like being hungry more than being fed.
Arun Jeetoo is an English teacher from London. His debut pamphlet I Want to Be the One You Think About at Night was published by Waterloo Press (2020). @g2poetry.