Jackie kay Flashcards

(40 cards)

1
Q

A door opens and closes. time is outside waiting.

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Keeping orchids

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2
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There are parents in the world whose faces turn up to see the light who speak in soft murmurs of rivers and never shout

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Dicorce

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3
Q

Massive leatherbacks

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Gap Year

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4
Q

You are rough and wild

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Divorce

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6
Q

Soaking my chest of drawers

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Keeping orchids

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7
Q

You arrived late

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Gap year

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8
Q

Am a burden tae her

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Bed

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9
Q

I would be better off in an orphanage’

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Divorce

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11
Q

Compressed. airtight

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Keeping Orchids

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12
Q

He canny see anything

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Gap Year

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13
Q

Trying to imagine you in your bed

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Gap year

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14
Q

Put in the basket

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Gap year

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15
Q

Troubled hands

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Keeping orchids

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16
Q

My heart sores like the birds in your bright blue skies. my love glows like the sunrise over the lost city

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Gap Year

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17
Q

I close my eyes and try to remember exactly

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Keeping orchids

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18
Q

Great tent o’ nappy

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Bed

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19
Q

These parents are not you i never chose you

20
Q

The kerrs have disappeared

21
Q

You were dreaming

22
Q

A’ took a pride in ma guid smooth skin.)

23
Q

Buds became closed

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Keeping orchids

24
Q

Pu’ ma cardie tight

25
Q

Grapes have no immagination

26
Q

Her train station to mine then home

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Keeping orchids

27
Time is whit A' hauld between the soft bits o' ma thumbs,
Bed
28
You were lying cross-legged with an index finger resting sophisticatedly on one cheek
Gap year
29
Want her guilty
Bed
30
High bed
Lucozade
31
Don't bring magazines, too much about size.
Lucozade
32
Father, your breath smells like a camel's and gives me the hump
Divorce
32
I have a son out in the big wide world
Gap year
33
I carry the orange nostalgia home singing an old song
Lucozade
34
That's no seen a lick o' paint fir donkeys
Bed
35
Bags full, Lucozade, Grapes, oranges, sad chrysanthemums under my arms
Lucozade
36
I dont want to be your child
Divorce
37
She nods off and her eyes go back in her head
Lucozade
38
I want a divorce
Divorce
38
The skeleton
BED
39
I turn around, wave with her flowers
Lucozade
40
'I did not promise to stay with you till death do us part'
Divorce