series1bk2.10.1
While suffering the bumps and buffeting of school ritual,
hitting perpetually the toughening hub in my molten
sola plexus, I soldiered valiant to the raw
forefront, clad in the colours of emergent identity.
Splendidly pirouetting in my brash attire,
I fired rockets at a moon's loony smile,
compiling lists of optimistic options
in a sloppy survey of loosely exclusive ambitions.
Richly pampered with a stately home, yet harshly
harassed in survival of the fittest hit programmes
for growing tall, I sprawled far too florid
on the slushy horrid cushion of family renown.
In gaucherie, I found myself enslaved
with thoughts the world would give me all I craved.