eleanor j jackson
  • Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet,
    performer, arts producer, cyclist, writer, gal
    about town, feminist, freewheeler, and
    friend. One day, she is going to be an
    ideas curator. Which basically
    means, she will tell you
    exactly what she thinks.
    Until then, you’ll have
    to read between
    the lines.

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I will be your husband

  • January 25, 2013
  • by Eleanor Jackson
  • · musing

if you’ll be my wife.

9.40pm is when the clock says
this is at last happening
but I am happenstance –

mascara streaming

a beatific woman who smells like
keen spirit
is nestled to my chest

your body is humming to

chain gang primordial
beat metal thumping
I want to lie lie lie here and

stare at the ceiling, saintly

Mary who holds all our sins
they tell me
when I am not asking

that you are a great man

a lovely man
a good man
but aren’t I the meanest

goddamn woman
you have ever seen?

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  1. _ January 26, 2013 · Reply

    I saw you. You are incredibly beautiful

  2. gonowandlive January 26, 2013 · Reply

    I saw you before I read you words, just gorgeous. You are incredibly beautiful.

    • some lady January 30, 2013 · Reply

      hehhe – now you’re just making me blush.

      lucky my words got good make up then, eh?

  3. gonowandlive January 30, 2013 · Reply

    Haha absolutely, Brisbane is smaller than it seems, hopefully I’ll bump into you sometime in the near future…and perhaps I’ll muster the courage to approach you.

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