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Nadezhda Macey

Fucking Shit Up!


I’m Fucking Shit UP!
I’m handing in the document
I’m sleeping at sundown
I’m getting the payslip / 50% TAX
Save vs. / do not.
$420 in the LIFE SAVINGS
And I’m saving you
JPEG file / corrupt your image
One day at a time
I’m walking Courtenay Place late night
Post-shift work shirt core-core
I’m eating the apple
I’m fucking you / up
In the dark enlightened
Your dreams like a receipt on the bedroom wall
I’m standing up on the bus
You’re carrying my groceries home
Swearing at your students / stretch for the chord w pinky
Promise / changing majors
I’m carrying the clothes horse
Hang your wet laundry / shirt arms
Dripping hope like / people with dreams
I’m fucking this up!
This / is Devon street
Slide down / And blood on the side
I said it would be painless /
It won’t be that at all


Nadezhda Macey is 20 and loves the bush and wide open spaces. She is completing a Bachelor of Arts at Te Herenga Waka, but is currently studying in France.