Nadia Lines
I take my vitamins with gin and tonic.
I am in a swanky mid-century hotel.
I have been put up by my editor
because he does not want to put up with me.
There is a chaise longue here.
The bath is marble and has clawed feet.
I can cry as much as I wish
and I always get given clean towels.
The view is passable. New York. Night.
There’s a balcony, I think.
Mainly I sit by the vanity
and pluck my eyebrows and smoke.
They bring me coffee.
They make the bed while I’m still in it.
I have grown used to the hospital corners
but they give me four pillows, not two.
Nadia Lines is a student at Cambridge. She was a Foyle Young Poet in 2019 and her debut poetry pamphlet, Stephen the Phlebotomist, was published by Nine Pens Press in 2022.
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