Nell Osborne

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I’ve nowhere better to be, Officer

I promise it’s perfectly innocent
the way I loiter here in the female changing
room long after my spin class has finished

/ to see the beneath of things
a colony of armored bodies moving nakedly
is such a relief I am so
bored of sex

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NELL OSBORNE is a poet and researcher based in Manchester. She co-runs the experimental feminist reading series, No Matter. Her work has appeared in para·text, MAI and Adjacent Pineapple.