Toby Campion
cher coming last in a cher look-alike competition
squatting beside a ford fiesta outside the auditorium
berating her hairline in the wing-mirror
someone who’s never met cher presenting cher with an A3 poster
of her face and a permanent marker cher flossing cher missing a bus
someone who’s never met cher telling cher that’s so cher
a man putting a cigarette out on cher’s front door
cher combing her wigs on the jetty a duffel bag by her feet
with a brick at the bottom she’s saying something over and over
cher at the anti-cher march in overalls a balaclava
holding a cher is shit placard handing out budweisers
cracking a bottle into a counter-protestor’s face the crowd roaring
pulling disguised cher onto their shoulders cher with her veneers
ripped off handcuffed in court saying I swear to god it’s not me
Toby Campion is is an award winning poet and playwright. A former UK Poetry Slam Champion, his poems have been published widely, most recently in bath magg, The Rialto and The London Magazine.
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