Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 9. April 24 1978
Private Thoughts
Private Thoughts
Your letter came today
Alice broke my glasses
Asked how much I've got —
Has my situation changed?
I've got what you gave and
A pair of broken shades.
You joke to hope I'd say
Things have changed —
You think three can
Live on a basic wage
Or things stay nice
With a toddler's ways.
It's not only you.
Lady Poverty eyes me
Through her broken shades—
I have embraced her
I do not wish to smell
Her sour breath again.
So of course I lie —
What did you expect?
Susan Heap