Kerri Shying R #206 - Bullet Train

Bullet train

I want to earn a thousand dollars a week without leaving my room

I want the swagger that comes with being

a barista   and the large beard of wire and twigs

I want to be an internationally-hip barista own

a prize-winning beard            skim an income from social media be

he who dips the bespoke fingers            into local ponds             trailing

ideas across the heads of those I went to high school with

like the lace doily tablecloth Mum let me wear as my

Super Hero cape             at five                                   

I will have plaits            when others have a man-bun

sing out when you want me

 and we’ll talk