poem – A Vegan Adventurer

Me, and my aggressive septum piercing

extreme almond milk

and radical mascara

(that didn’t blind any Beagles?!)

gently, oh so carefully

ask you,

Leah Mallet, 18 year old beauty therapist from Leeds,

Why did a sticker

horrify you so much?

And actual slaughter

not bother you at all?

Fucks sake, I’m trying

To beat my google maps time.

You ruin my drives.

What if, instead,

I look down at the wonder

of tiny, separate, moving cells

that have merged from the majesty

of Queens

and infernos of oceanic volcanoes.