Afshan D'souza -Lodhi

Burning Eye Podcast

This week's poem comes from our upcoming 2020 poet Afshan D'souza-Lodhi who's debut re:desire will be released 25th June. Poem text: Are we? we are the generation of women who's fathers were around but who's mothers ran houses raised children fed armies cleaned up your messes and your messes and your messes and never seemed to get into any messes herself. we are the generation that holds each other in silence, across the internet and in every single cliche we are talked about but never allowed to live in. we are the generation of radical honesty, the kind that doesn't let a friend leave the house with their skirt tucked into their knickers, but the kind that lies with kindness and discretion. we are the resistance, the ones that grew up on twitter and protested regimes across borders. we use memes to politicise and get quoted by acamedics theorising about our lives we are the ones that build houses using youtube, we fix lamps and boilers and that leak underneath the tap. we google and facebook and ask the neighbourhood group if anyone has a spare pot of paint to do up the garden and on-up the annoying neighbour. we are the children of those that inherited books as gifts. we pride ourselves in packed bookcases of books we've never read. we use our time wisely, to write poetry, to sing loudly in the kitchen while making the buns our mothers used to bake for us kids we buy flour and eggs and forget to buy yeast but facetime with home will save us and the buns. we are- and we will be- its just a matter of how. --- https://twitter.com/afshandl http://burningeye.co.uk