MAYHEM
Issue Two – November 2014
ISSN 2382-0322
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Faith Wilson
Wunderkind
I’ve been an alcoholic
since I was eleven:
a good year, eleven.
We snuck some crème de menthe
at a St Paddy’s party hosted
by the Honiss family, kiss me
quick, I’m a 64th Irish.
Round Two, I’m twelve.
We’re drinking St. Remy
from reused Nutella glasses, you know
the ones with cartoon characters
licked on the sides, Blinky Bill
or The Simpsons or something, and
all these drinks take names of saints
so I must be doing something holy.
I was made to practice abstinence
at high school. Sacred
Heart Girls’ and you’d think I’d
be able to find a shitty cask of
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Velluto Rosso somewhere in
this nunnery; they must’ve
locked it up in preparation
for my arrival, it seems, my
reputation precedes me.
In 4th Form the DTs hit.
I told everyone I had early onset
Parkinson’s so best not
hand me your inkwell, or
I’m doing my best impersonation
of Ms. Crook.
I can be a real joker sometimes,
so I was cast in the school play as
Lear’s Fool, but no one laughed
so they gave me Cordelia but
I wasn’t white enough, I was a fine
Goneril, but drank all the medicine
intended for Regan, as Regan,
I never died, too legit to be
Edmund, too sane for Edgar
/too rich for Poor Tom,
way too crazy for Lear, and
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soon I had too many faces but
none had reflections, I was
the whole play, the entire
shit-storm, sturm und drang,
and the audience would ask
‘who are you?’, ‘what’s it all about?’ and
I could only shake my head, blow
winds, crack cheeks, and all
I could say was
nothing.
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