COURTNEY SINA MEREDITH
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drove to your house parked across the road 'm n town
'm selfsh know 'm sorry
ddn't get out wanted to chckened out
sold everythng gave up smokng took up Jesus
went to Caro wanted to rng ddn't thnk enough tme had passed
mssed your voce wasn't n New York wanted to say sorry
know don't deserve your tme hurt you
ddn't mean to had ths dea was somewhere else was wrong
wasn't n Pars ran out of cash n Morocco got work n a town wth no name
cleaned rooms poured drnks worked lke a dog
wrote to you never sent the letters burnt them n a feld
took pctures of the smoke mssed your laugh went to Rome
lt a candle at the baslca prayed for you sent my love
know should've prayed for myself

Photo by Sally Greer
Courtney Sina Meredith (1986–) is a poet, playwright, fiction writer and musician. Her play Rushing Dolls (2010) won a number of awards and was published by Playmarket in 2012. She launched her first book of poetry, Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick (Beatnik), at the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair and her debut book of short stories Tail of the Taniwha was launched in 2016 to critical acclaim. She describes her writing as an ‘ongoing discussion of contemporary urban life with an underlying Pacific politique’. Her poetry and prose have been translated into Italian, German, Dutch, French and Bahasa Indonesia.