{"id":25537,"date":"2014-05-13T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=25537"},"modified":"2014-05-04T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T05:20:13","slug":"the-tuesday-poem-refeaturing-johanna-aitchisons-banana-the-battered-woman-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/05\/13\/the-tuesday-poem-refeaturing-johanna-aitchisons-banana-the-battered-woman-group\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tuesday Poem: Refeaturing Johanna Aitchison’s “Banana & The Battered Woman Group”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Banana & The Battered Woman Group<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the other battered women go
\nget chicken for their rolls, after
\nthe coleslaw & instant coffees
\n& fruit bursts, after the video,
\n(in which the man says to his wife,
\n\u201cCome here,\u201d he drags her down
\n& tells her she looks hot & gropes
\nher boobs in front of their son,
\nshe swats him off like a fly,
\n\u201cNot in front of Jarred!\u201d she says;
\n& he suddenly decides her sexy outfit
\nis not so cool if it\u2019s going
\nto be taken out on the street
\nwhere other men will stare at it,
\nso he says to the boy, \u201cMummy
\nlooks like a real slut in that.\u201d
\nThe boy looks up at mummy
\nin a way that makes Banana think
\nhe knows what \u201cslut\u201d means.
\nThe boy drops his head
\nto his bag of chicken chippies),
\nBanana bites into her chicken roll
\n& says, \u201cWhat an arsehole!\u201d
\nthe other battered women laugh,
\n& the very young woman
\ntakes her dark glasses off.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Johanna Aitchison<\/p>\n

Posted with permission.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

I am currently reposting previously featured poems from poets who have have more than one poem on \u201c\u2026Anything, Really.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

To read my original commentary on \u201cis anybody in there\u201d and a bio of Johanna Aitchison, please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>To check out the featured poem on the Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong> and other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, click here<\/strong><\/a> or on the Quill<\/strong> icon <\/strong>in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Banana & The Battered Woman Group After the other battered women go get chicken for their rolls, after the coleslaw & instant coffees & fruit bursts, after the video, (in which the man says to his wife, \u201cCome here,\u201d he drags her down & tells her she looks hot & gropes her boobs in front […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-writers","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25537"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25543,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25537\/revisions\/25543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}