Tife Kusoro

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orpheus wrote a romcom

we fall asleep like the tiny flame on the thermostat
when the room is just
jobless as pyjama pockets              why stay awake when
                      poems write themselves

act ii plays in the background:   boy climbs the sun to find
the sun is a bonnet on a pillowcase, a red stripe resting
on the windowsill, two bodies plotless as a lullaby    
       hushing Hades

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TIFE KUSORO is a Nigerian-British writer and performer. She is a Roundhouse Resident Artist and her poem ‘the only other dark-skinned girl’ won 2^nd prize in the 2022 National Poetry Competition.