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Unwanted Passenger

Hannah Desmond

I’m exhausted on the subway home
The stench of stale sweat invades me
A man leans in, his breath foul
“Hey there, pretty brown-eyes”
I square up to him
I reach for the
severed head
in my
purse

About this poem

This is my first nonet. It is a revised version of a submission elsewhere because I ADHDed it and messed up the counting. So this is my first official nonet, about a subway journey which takes an unexpected turn.

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Written on February 21, 2024

Submitted by desmond.hannah on February 21, 2024

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Scheme ABCDEFGHI
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 201
Words 41
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
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Hannah Desmond

I’ve been writing poems as a hobby since I was a child. I won a competition when I was 8. I’m 38 now so I thought I’d enter some more. I write a lot of comic poetry that I perform as spoken word as my style has a particular rhythm suited to a spoken narrative which may be missed when read from the page. more…

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