TENANCY Part 8: Tuesday
by Gboyega Odubanjo
here we are fat
as husbands
a bag of peas
between us
i would change
the channel but
no one has paid
the bill and the man
coming to fit the box
needs me to phone
my guy who will
phone him and then
he’ll call me back
i’m waiting the flies
in here like bailiffs
watching something
terrestrial and
from the buttocks
of my heart
what i wouldn’t
for a cotch
to lay my hat
in east windows
that open all the way
an ice maker all
to myself
i wouldn’t give
my name not laughter
but everything else
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Gboyega Odubanjo was born and raised in East London. His pamphlet,While I Yet Live, was published by Bad Betty Press in 2019. His second pamphlet, Aunty Uncle Poems, will be published by The Poetry Business in 2021. Gboyega is an editor of bath magg.
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TENANCY is a MAP project in twelve parts, presenting new work considering what it means to occupy somewhere–or something–temporarily. The project is curated by Helen Charman, MAP Commissioning Editor.
