THE WOMAN WHO SHOPPED - KEY QUOTES

went out with

a silver shilling

bought an apple,

red as first love’s heart

saved up a pound,

a fiver, a tenner

haggled the price of a

dancing dress

danced from the house down the street,

tapped to the centre of town

wanted a wedding, a wedding dress,

groom, married him

flew away home to furnish

each room of the house

shuffle his plastic with hers,

deal them out in shops

shrugged at the cost,

then fixed up a loan

she fled,

took to the streets

and pressed her face to the

pane of the biggest and best

were fingering

silk

curled in the doorway

six shopping bags at her feet

stone cold

when she woke

her thoughts neon,

flashing on

her skirts were glass doors,

opening and closing

her ribs were carpeted red,

her lungs glittered with chandeliers

she loved her own smell,

sweat and chanel

where juggernauts growled,

unloading their heavy crates

lihgt blazed from

her now

would queue overnight at her cunt

desperate for bargains

birds shrieked and voided themselves

in her stone hair