Natalie Shaw
No one liked the new rules but
we thought they were good rules.
With just the two of us left,
we cartwheeled in,
as was the rule.
We had to say to everyone
go away
go away –
we planned to swim naked
and keep the wave machine on
all the time.
If there had been music, it would
have sounded like this
Natalie Shaw has been described as ‘wonderfully bananas’ by the TLS. Her pamphlet Dirty Martini was published by Broken Sleep in January 2023; Oh be quiet came out with Against the Grain in 2020.
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